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Recipes and Disclosures. 



MercMs' and Manufacturers' Benartat. 



The following may be implicitly relied on by till dealers to 
give good satisfaction. For Java Coffee, use of the imported 
article 20 lbs., dried dandelion root Tibs., chiccory 13 lbs. ; roast 
and grind well together. For West India Coffee, use rye roast- 
ed with a little butter and ground very fine. For Turkey Cof- 
fee, use rice or wheat roasted with a little butter 7 lbs., chiccory 
3 lbs. ; grind. Horsebeans roasted with a little honey or sugar, 
remove from the tine, add a small quantity of cassia buds, stir 
the whole till cold, grind; an excellent article. Acorns depriv- 
ed of their shells, husked, dried and roasted, make a good Cof- 
fee. Essence of Coffee can be made by boiling down molasses 
till hard, grind to a powder, add to every 4 lbs. of the mixture 
good ground Java Coffee 1-2 lb. ; mix. Put up for sale in round 
tin cans. A small quantity of this added to coffee while mak- 
ing will save half the usual quantity of the latter, and impart 
a fine flavor to the beverage. Large dealers well know that all 



6 Recipes and Disclosures 

of the above, or any other coffees, ought to be put up in Iead- 
coated paper packages, which effectually prevents the aroma 
from being volatilized. 

Artificial Honey. 

Take 10 lbs. Havana sugar, 3 lbs. of water, 40 grains of cream 
tartar, 10 drops of essence of peppermint, and 3 lbs. of honey; 
first dissolve the sugar in the water over a slow fire, and take 
off the scum arising therefrom ; then dissolve the cream tartar 
in a little warm water and add with some stirring; then add 
the honey, heated to a boiling pitch, then the essence of pepper- 
mint, and stir for a few moments, and let it stand until cold, 
when it will be ready for use. This honey is equal to that made 
by bees. 

Custard Powders. 
Sago, meal and flour, 1 lb. each, colored with tumeric, to a 
cream color, flavor with essential oil of almonds 1 dr., essence 
of lemon 2 drs. Use with sweetened milk to form extempora- 
neous custards. 

Directions to Make Vinegar from Sugar. 

Use 1 lb. to every gallon of water, and 1 quart yeast to every 
barrel ; of the dregs of molasses barrels 1 lb. to each gallon of 
water, and 1 quart yeast to each barrel; of whiskey use 1 gallon 
to every 4 of water; 5 lbs. sugar to each barrel will give this a 
better color; if from apple cider, use 1-3 water, adding 1 quart 
yeast to each barrel. If a few gallons are made boiling hot so 
as to warm the whole gently, it will make good vinegar in one 
day, otherwise it will take three days. This article is equal to 
white wine vinegar, which retails at 50 cents per gallon, and the 
recipe has been sold for $500. 

Baking Powder. 
Carbonate of soda 56 lbs., tartaric acid 28 lbs., potatoe flour 112 
lbs., tumeric 12 oz. ; mix. Put up in little tin cans or paper 
packages. Prepared Patent or Self-rising Flour is made by 
adding 4 lbs. of the above powder to every 100 lbs. of common 
flour, and mixing completely ; it must be kept perfectly dry. To 
use, mix quickly with water and put it into the oven at once. 



For Merchants, Manufavtiirers, dV. 1 

Prize Honey, without Bees' Honey. 

White sugar 5 lbs,, water 1 1-2 lbs. ; simmer gradually over 
the fire and add 1-2 oz. alum in powder; seim off the scum, if 
any; set off to cool, adding a small quantity of the following- 
extract to flavor to suit the taste. 

Extract for Flavoring- Honey. 

Alcohol 1 pt,, good Jamaica ginger 2 oz. ; macerate for 10 days 
adding 2 or 3 drops ottar rose to scent. 

Good Vinegar. 

Boil slowly for one hour 3 lbs. of very coarse brown sugar 
in 3 gallons of water, work it with a little yeast the same as you 
would beer, then put it into a cask and expose it to the sun, 
with a piece of brown paper pasted over the bunghole ; and it 
Mill soon become fine vinegar fit for pickling or any other pur- 
pose. 

Tests for Good Flour. 

Good flour is white, with a yellowish or straw colored tint ; 
squeeze some of the flour in your hand — if good, it will retain 
the shape given by pressure; knead a little between your fingers, 
if it works soft and sticky it is poor ; throw a little against a dry 
smooth perpendicular surface, if it falls like powder it is bad. 
These tests may be relied on as infallible. 

Liquid, and Button Blueing Liquid. 

Put into a common phial 1 oz. pure Prussian blue, reduced to 
a powder, ami pour over it from 1 1-2 to 2 ozs. concentrated 
muriatic acid, stand for 24. hours, then dilute with 8 or 9 oz. soft 
water; this gives an intense blue color. For solid blue take 
starch and whiting equal parts and finely powdered indigo to 
color, then dry. 

To Preserve Apples. 

Take apples and pack them in clean, dry, chopped straw, so 
that they do not touch each other. Warranted satisfactory. 

Paste Blacking. 
Ivory black 4 lbs., molasses 3 lbs., sweet oil 1 lb., oil vitrol 3 
lbs,, mix well. 



Recipes and Disclosures 



"Water Proof Blacking. 
Take three ounces spermaceti, melt it in an earthen vessel 
over a slow fire ; add 6 drachms India rubber, cut in thin slices, 
let it dissolve ; then add 8 ounces tallow, 2 ounces lard, and 4 
ounces amber varnish ; mix and it Avill be fit for use. 

Jellies. 

Lemon JeMy.— Isinglass 2 oz., water 1 qt., boil, add sugar 
1 lb., clarify, and when nearly cold add the jnice of five lemons, 
and the grated yellow rinds of two oranges and two lemons ; 
mix well, strain oft' the peel, and put it into glasses or bottles. 

Hartshorn Jelly. — Hartshorn 1 lb., water 1 gal., peel of two 
lemons, boil over a gentle fire till sufficiently thick, strain, and 
add loaf sugar 1-2 lb., whites of ten eggs beaten to a froth, juice 
of six lemons ; mix well together, then bottle. 

Isinglass Jelly. — Put 4 oz. isinglass and 2 oz. cloves into 
one gallon water, boil it down to half a gallon, strain it upon 4 
lbs. loaf sugar; add while cooling a little wine, then bottle. 

Apple Jelly from Cider. — Take of apple juice strained 4 lbs., 
sugar 2 lbs. ; boil to a jelly, then bottle. 

Gooseberry Jelly. — Sugar 4 lbs., water 2 lbs., boil together; 
it will be nearly solid when cold ; to this syrup add an equal 
weight of gooseberry juice, give a short boil, cool, then pot it. 

Currant Jelly. — Take the juice of red currants and loaf sugar, 
equal quantities, boil and stir gently for three hours ; put it into 
glasses, and in three days it will concentrate into a firm jelly. 

Tapioca Jelly.— "Wash 8 oz. tapioca well, then soak it in 1 
gal. fresh water five or six hours, add the peel of eight lemons, 
and set all on to heat, simmer till clear, add the juice of the 
eight lemons, with wine and sugar to taste, then bottle. 

Common Mustard. 
Flour of mustard 28 lbs., wheat flour, 28 lbs., cayenne pepper 
8 oz., or as required ; common salt 10 lbs. rape oil 3 lbs., tumeric 
to color; mix well, and pass through a fine sieve. 

To Improve Brown Sugar. 
To every 10 lbs. of sugar add 2 lbs. of flour, mix well and you 
will have 12 lbs. of sugar worth 15 per cent more in quality. 



Fur Merchant*, Manufacturers, &c. 9 

Teas. 
The dangerous adulterations of this article in China and this 
country are absolutely frightful. The following have the merit 
of being cheaper and more healthy than common tea, while the 
appearance is nearly the same :— The young leaves of the pea 
plant, or the young leaves and flowers of the strawberry, or the 
first leaves of the currant bush, or the herd spring grass (An- 
tltnxanthum Odbratum), or the leaves of speedwell, wild ger- 
mander, syringia or mock orange, purple spiked willow herb, 
sweet brier, cherry tree, sloe, &c. The above should be dried 
on tin in the shade, and afterwards rounded up with a little cal- 
cined magnesia to impart a bloom. Black currant leaves and 
good chopped meadow hay similarly treated, make good teas. 

Napoleon's Camp Sauce. 
Old strong beer 2 qts., white wine 1 qt., anchovies 4 oz. ; mix; 
boil for ten minutes, remove it from the fire, and add of peeled 
shalotes 3 oz., mace, nutmeg, ginger and black pepper 1-2 oz. 
each; macerate for fourteen days and bottle. 

Shaving Soap. 
Take 4 1-2 lbs. white bar soap, 1 qt. rain water, 1 gill beef's 
gall and 1 gill spirits of turpentine. Cut the soap thin and boil 
five minutes. Stir while boiling, and color with 1-2 oz. vermil- 
ion; scent with oil of rose or almonds. Fifty cents worth of 
material will make six dollars worth of soap. 

Soap without Lye or Grease. 
In a clean pot put 1-2 lb. home-made hard or mush soap, and 
1-2 lb. sal soda, and 5 pints soft water. Boil the mixture fifteen 
. minutes, and you will have 5 lbs. good soap for 7 1-2 cents. 
Hard Soap. 
Take 5 lbs. hard soap, or 7 lbs. soft soap, 4 lbs. sal soda, 2 oz. 
borax and 1 oz. hartshorn ; boil one quarter of an hour with 22 
qts. water ; add to harden 1-2 lb. rosin. 

Soft Soap without Lye. 
Mix 10 lbs. potash in 10 gals, warm water over night; in the 
morning boil it, adding 6 lbs. grease ; then put all in a barrel, 
adding 15 gals, water. Use soft water only. 



10 Recipes and Disclosure* 

French Patent Mustard. 
Flour of mustard 8 lbs., wheat flour 2 lbs., bay salt 2 lbs., cay- 
enne pepper 3 oz., vinegar to mix. 

"Windsor Soap. 
White soap 14 lbs., oil caraway 3 oz., essence musk 1 oz., oil 
origanum 1-2 oz., oil lavender and essence bergamot, each 1-4 
oz., finely powdered cassia 8 oz. Reduce with water and form 
into cakes. 

Artificial Lemon Syrup. 
Pale sugar 1 1-2 lbs, tartaric acid, or citric acid is best, 1 oz., 
(more or less), hot water 1 gal., oil lemon 1 dr., mix well in a 
close vessel, and frequently shake for one day. 

Candied Lemon Peel. 

Take lemon peels and boil them in syrup, then take them out 
and dry. 

Pickled Onions. 

Choose small round onions, remove the skins, steep them in 
strong brine for a week in a stone vessel, pour it oft' and heat 
till it boils, then pour it on the onions boiling hot; after twenty- 
four hours, drain on a sieve, then put them in bottles, fill up 
over them with strong spiced vinegar boiling hot, cork down 
immediately and wax over the cork. In a similar manner are 
pickled cucumbers, mushrooms, cauliflowers, samphires, peas, 
beans, green gooseberries, walnuts, red cabbage, (without salt 
with cold vinegar). Observe that the soft and more delicate ar- 
ticles do not require so long soaking in the brine as the harder 
and coarser kinds, and may be often kept by simply pouring 
very strong pickling vinegar on them without the application of 
heat. For peaches, select ripe but not soft ones, rub with a dry 
cloth, put four cloves free from their heads in each large peach, 
and two in small ones; to 1 gal. vinegar put 6 lbs. good brown 
sugar, put the peaches in a jar and put the vinegar (diluted with 
water if too strong) and sugar in a preserving kettle over the 
fire, boil and skim it, pour it boiling hot over the peaches, cover- 
ing them closely; repeat the operation three times, then seal 
them tightly in cans or bottles. 



For Merchants, Manufacturers, &c. 11 

To Restore Injured Meat. 

When the brine sours or taints the meat, pour it oft", boil it, 
skim it well, then pour it back again ou the meat boiling hot; 
this will restore it even when much injured. Flyblown meat 
can be completely restored by immersing it for a few hours in a 
vessel containing a small quantity of beer, but it will taint and 
impart a putrid smell to the liquor. Fresh meat, hams, fish, &c., 
can be preserved for an indefinite length of time without salt, by 
a light application ot pyroligneous acid applied with a brush ; it 
imparts a fine smoky flavor to the meat and is an effectual pre- 
servative against its loss. 

To Restore Rancid Butter. 

Use 1 pint water to each lb. butter, previously adding 20 grs. 
chloride of lime to each pint of water, wash the butter well in 
this mixture, afterwards re-wash in cold water, and salt. Or 
melt the butter in a water bath with animal charcoal, coarsely 
powdered and previously well sifted to free it from dust; skim, 
remove and strain through flannel, then salt. 

Grindstones from. Common Sand. 

River sand 30 lbs., shellac 10 parts, powdered glass 2 parts; 
melt in an iron pot, and cast into moulds. 

Red Ink. 
In an oz. phial put 1 teaspoonful of aqua ammonia, gum ara- 
bic size of two or three peas, and 6 grs. of No. 40 carmine; fill 
up with soft water, and it is soon ready for use. 

Black Copying Ink or "Writing Fluid. 

Take 2 gals, rain water and put into it gum arabic 1-4 lb., 
brown sugar 1-4 lb., clean copperas 1-4 lb., powdered nutgalls 
3-4 lb. ; mix and shake occasionally for ten days, and strain ; if 
needed sooner, let it stand in an iron kettle until the strength is 
obtained. This ink will stand the action of the atmosphere for 
centuries, if required. 

Liquid Glue or Mucilage. 
Fine clean glue or mucilage 1 lb., gum arabic or gum acacia 10 



12 Recipes and Disclosures 

oz., water I quart; melt by heat in a glue kettle or water bath ; 
when entirely melted add slowly 10 oz. strong nitric acid, .set oft" 
to cool, then bottle, adding a couple of cloves to each bottle. 

To Preserve Meat. 
Take 1 lb. black pepper and grind it fine, for one bbl. of 200 
lbs. pork, and sprinkle on each layer of the meat till it is quite 
brown, then put on the salt as usual ; it helps to preserve the 
meat, and adds greatly to the smell and flavor of it. 

American Commercial "Writing Ink. 
Take 1-4 lb. extract logwood to 1 gal. clean soft water; heat 
to a boiling point in a perfectly clean iron kettle, skim well, stir, 
add 90 grs. bichromate of potash, 15 grs. of prussiate of potash, 
dissolve in a half pint of hot water; then stir for three minutes, 
take off, strain twice through sheeting cloth. 

To Restore Musty Flour. 

Carbonate of magnesia 3 lbs., flour 7G0 lbs.; mix. This im- 
proves bad flour, makes it keep longer, and causes it to become 
more wholesome, producing lighter and better bread than when 
alum is used. 

Adamantine Candles from. Tallow. 

Melt together 10 oz. mutton tallow, camphor 1-4 oz., beeswax 
4 oz., alum two oz. Candles made of these materials are very 
hard and durable, and burn with a clear and steady light. 
To Cure Butter. 

Take 2 parts best common salt, 1 part loaf sugar, 1 part salt- 
petre, mix completely ; to each lb. of butter add one ounce of 
this mixture, work in well and close up securely for use. This 
is the best known process for preserving butter ; it will keep 
good for two years if kept well covered from the air ; do not use 
it for three weeks after putting down. 

To salt butter in the common way, use 1 to 2 oz. common 
salt to each lb. of butter, according to the length of time required 
to keep it. While retailing out of a keg of salt butter keep the 
surface well covered with salt brine as a preservative. Butter 
may be preserved without salt for a long time by adding 1 oz. 
honey to each lb. of butter ; mix well. 



For Druggists and Perfumers. 13 



Drifts' and Perfumers' Department. 



Cod-Liver Oil. 
As usually prepared, it is nothing more or less than cod oil 
clarified, by which process it is in fact deprived in a great meas- 
ure of its virtue. Cod oil can be purchased from any wholesale 
oil dealer for one-thirtieth part of the price of cod-liver oil as 
usually sold, and it is easy to clarify it. Dealers might turn this 
information to good account. To make it more palatable and 
digestible, put 1 oz. fine table salt to each quart bottle. 

Barren's Indian Liniment. 
Alchohol 1 qt., tincture of capsicum 1 oz., oils of origanum, 
sassafras, pennyroyal and hemlock, each 1-2 oz. ; mix. More 
than $70,000 has been cleared by the sale of this medicine dur- 
ing the last twelve years in the Western States. 

India Cholagogue. 
Quinine 20 grs., peruvian bark pulverized 1 oz., sulphuric 
acid 15 drops, or 1 scruple of tartaric acid is best, brandy 1 gill; 
water to make 1 pint. Dose, 5 teaspoonsful every two hours in 
the absence of fever — an excellent remedy. 

Febrifuge "Wine. 
Quinine 25 grs., water 1 pt., sulphuric acid 15 drops, Epsom 
salts 2 oz., color with tincture of red sanders. Dose, a wine- 
glass full three times per day. 

Holloway's Ointment and Pills. 
Ointment.— Butter 12 oz., beeswax 4 oz., yellow resin 3 oz., 
melt, add vinegar of cantharides 1 oz., evaporate and add Cana- 
da balsam 1 oz., oil mace 1-2 dr., balsam Peru 15 drops. 



14 Recipes and Disclosures 

Pills. — Aloes 4 parts, myrrh, jalap and ginger, each 2 parts, 
mucilage to mix. 

Positive Curo for Gonorrhoea. 

Liquor of potass 1-2 oz., bitter apple 1-2 oz., spirits of sweet 
nitre 1-2 oz., balsam copaiba 1-2 oz., best gum 1-4 oz. To use, 
mix with peppermint water; take 1-2 teaspoonful three times 
a day. Cure certain in nine days, 

Cephalic Snuff". 
Take asarabacea leaves, marjoram, light Scotch snuff, equal 
parts; grind them and sift; use like common snuff. 

Dalby's Carminative. 
Magnesia 2 drs., oil peppermint 3 drops, oil nutmeg 8 drops, 
oil anise 9 drops, tinct. castor 1 1-2 drs., tinct. asafoetida 45 
drops, tinct. opium IS drops, ess. pennyroyal 50 drops, tinct. 
eardamons 95 drops, peppermint water 7 oz. ; mix. 

How to Remove Tan, Blotches, Freckles, Pimples, &c. 

To 2 gals, strong soap suds, add 1 pint pure alchohoi, and 4 
oz. rosemary. Mix these well together. Apply with a linen 
rag twice a day, until the object is effected. 

Green Mountain Salve. 
For rheumatism, burns, pains in the back or side, &c. Take 
resin 2 lbs., burgundy pitch 1-4 lb., beeswax 1-4 lb., mutton tal- 
low 1-4 lb. ; melt slowly ; when not too warm add oil hemlock 1 
oz., balsam fir 1 oz., oil origanum 1 oz., oil red cedar 1 oz., Ve- 
nice turpentine 1 oz., oil wormwood 1 oz., verdigris 1-2 oz. The 
verdigris must be finely pulverized and mixed with the oils, 
then add as above and work in cold water like wax, till cold 
enough to roll ; rolls five inches long, one inch in diameter, sell 
for 25 cents. Superior to Peleg White's Salve. 

Positive Cure for Ague without Quinine. 
Peruvian bark 2 oz., wild cherry tree bark 1 oz., cinnamon 1 
dr., capsicum 1 teaspoonful, sulphur 1 oz., port wine 2 qts. ; let 
it stand two days. Buy your peruvian bark and pulverize it 
yourself, as it is often adulterated otherwise. Dose, 1 wine- 
glassful every two or three hours after fever is off, then 2 or 3 



For Druggists and Perfumers. 15 

per day till all is used; a certain cure. Before taking the above 
bleanse the bowels with a dose of Epsom salts, or other purga- 
tive. 

"Welford's Drops of Life for Flux. 

Gum opium 1 oz., gum kino 1 dr., gum camphor 40 grs., pow- 
dered nutmeg 1-2 oz., French Brandy or Jamaica spirit 1 pint, 
color with cochineal or saffron. Before taking, cleanse the bow- 
els with castor oil. For a grown person 20 to 40 drops, three or 
four times a day. For children 4 to (3 drops; administer in a 
little warm mint tea, in which is mixed as much prepared chalk 
as will lie on the point of a teaspoon. This is the best know 
cure for dysentery. 

British Oil. 

Oils of turpentine and linseed, each 8 oz., oils of amber and 
juniper, each 4 oz., Barbadoes tar 3 oz., seneca oil 1 oz. ; mix. 
This is a most valuable application for sores of all kinds. 
Golden Tincture. 

Alchohol 1 oz., sulphuric ether 1 oz., laudanum 1 oz. ; mix. 
This is Huffman's anodyne. Dose, from 3 to 30 drops, according 
to circumstances. 

Vermifuge for 'Worms. 

Oil of turpentine 1 lb., castor oil 5 lbs. 
Black Salve. 

Sweet oil and linseed oil, each 1 oz. and 1 oz. red lead, pulver- 
ized. Put all into an iron dish over a moderate tire, stir con- 
stantly until you can draw your finger over a drop of it on a 
board, when a little cool, without sticking, when it is done. 
Spread on a cloth and apply as other salve. 

Liquid Opodeldoc. 
Warm brandy 1 qt., add to it gum camphor 1 oz., sal amoniae 
1-4 oz., oils origanum and rosemary, each 1-2 oz., oil worm- 
wood 1-4 oz. : when the oils are dissolved, add 6 oz. soft soap. ' 

Vegetable Substitute for Crlomel. 
Jalap 1 oz., senna 2 oz., peppermint 1 oz., a little cinnamon it 
desired, all pulverized and sifted through gauze. Dose, 1 tea- 



16 Recipes and Disclosures 

spoonful in two or three spoonfuls of hot water, and a good lump 
white sugar; when cool, drink all. To be taken fasting in the 
morning ; drink gruel freely ; if it does not operate in three 
hours, repeat one half the quantity; use instead of calomel. 

Camphor Ice. 
Spermaceti 1 1-2 oz., gum camphor 3-4 oz., oil sweet almonds 
4 teaspoonfulls, set on a stove in an earthen dish till dissolved, 
heat just enough to melt it. While warm pour into small moulds , 
if desired to sell, then paper and put into tinfoil. Used for 
chaps on hands or lips. 

Imperial Drops for Gravel and Kidney Complaints. 

Oil origanum 1 oz., oil hemlock 1-4 oz., oil sassafras 1-4 oz., 
oil anise 1-3 oz., alcohol 1 pt. ; mix. Dose, from 1-2 to 1 tea- - 
sponful 3 times a day, in sweetened water, will soon give relief 
when constant weakness is felt across the small of the back, as 
well as gravelly affections causing pain about the kidneys. 

Balm of Beauty. 

Pure soft water 1 qt., pulverized Castile soap 4 oz., emulsion 
of bitter almonds G oz., rose and orange flower water, each 8 oz., 
tinct. benzoin 2 drs., borax 1 dr., add 5 grs. bi-chloride of mercu- 
ry to every 8 ounces of the mixture. To use, apply a cotton 
or linen cloth to the face, &c. 

Celebrated Pile Ointment. 

Take carbonate of lead 1-2 oz., sulphate of morphia 15 grs., 
stramonium ointment 1 oz., olive oil 20 drops. Mix and apply 
3 times a day or, as the pain may require. 

Cough Syrup. 
Syrup of squills 2 oz., tartarized antimony 8 grs., sulphate 
morphine 5 grs., pulverized gum arabic 1-4 oz., honey 1 oz., 
water 1 oz. ; mix. Dose for an adult, 1 small teaspoonful, repeat 
in half an hour if it does not relieve ; child in proportion. 
Syrup for Consumptives. 
Tamarack bark, taken from the tree without rossing, 1 peck, 
spikenard root 1-2 lb., dandelion root 1-4 lb., hops 2 oz. Boil I 
these sufiicient to get the strength in 2 or 3 gals, water, strain 



For Druggists and Perfumers. 11 

and boil down to 1 gal. ; when blood warm add 3 lbs. best honey 
and 3 pints best brandy ; bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose, 
drink freely of it 3 times per day before meals, at least a gill or 
more. Cure very certain. 

Sweating Drops. 
Ipecac, saffron, boneset and camphor gum, each 3 oz., opium 
1 oz., alcohol 2 qts. Let stand two weeks and filter. A tea- 
spoonful in a cup of hot sage or catnip tea every hour until free 
prespiration is produced. Excellent in colds, fevers, inflamma- 
tions, &c. Bathe the feet in hot water at the same time. 

Paregoric. 
Spirits 1 pt., laudanum 1 oz., flowers of benzoin 1-2 dr., oil 
anise 1-2 dr., camphor 1 scruple. Dose for adult, 1 to 2 dr., 
children 15 to 20 drops. 

Nerve and Bone Liniment. 
Beef gall 1 qt., alcohol 1 pt., volatile liniment 1 lb., spirits 
turpentine 1 lb., oil origanum 4oz.,aqua amonia 4 oz.,tinct. 
cayenne 1-2 pt., oil amber 3 oz., tmct. Spanish flies 6 oz. ; mix 
well. 

Common Castor Oil. 
Pale vegetable oil 1 gal., castor oil 2 gals. ; mix. 

Smelling Salts. 
Sub-carbonate of ammonia 8 parts, put it in coarse powder in 
a bottle, and pour on it oil of lavendar 1 part. 

Druggists' Colors. 
For Yellow, take iron filings, hydro-chloric acid to dissolve, 
dilute with cold water. For Bed, solution of sal ammoniac, 
cochineal to color. For Blue, indigo 1 part, oil vitrol 3 parts, 
dissolve, then dilute with water. For Green, verdigris 1 part, 
acetic acid 3 parts, dilute with water. For Purple, cochineal 
25 grs., sugar of lead 1 oz. ; dissolve. 

Good Samaritan. 
Take 95 per ct. alcohol 2 pts., and add to it the following arti- 
cles—oils sassafras, hemlock, spirits turpentine, balsam fir, 

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18 Recipes and Disclosures 

chloroform, timet, catechu, and guaiac, each 1 oz., oil origanum 
2 oz., oil winter green 1-2 oz., gum camphor 1-2 oz. This is 
one of the best applications for interne! or external pains known. 

Magnetic Pain-Killer and Toothache Drops. 
Alcohol 95 per cent. 2 oz., laudanum 1-2 oz., gum camphor 2 
oz., oil cloves 2 drs. ; mix and color with tinct. red sanders. 

Excellent Tooth Powder. 
Suds of eastile soap and spirits camphor, of each an equal 
quantity, thicken with equal quantities pulverized chalk and 
charcoal to a thick paste. Apply with the finger or brush. 

Ague Pills. 
Extract cornice florida 40 grs., pipeline 20 grs., quinine 20 
grs. ; make into 20 pills. 

Mineral "Water. 
Epsom salts 1 oz., cream tartar 1-2 oz., tartaric acid 1-4 oz., 
loaf sugar 1 lb., oil birch 20 drops ; put 1 qt. boiling water on all 
these articles, and add 3 qts. cold water on two tablespoonfuls 
yeast (winter green oil will do), let it work two hours then 
bottle. 

Shaving Cream. 
White wax, spermaceti and almond oil, each 1-4 oz. ; melt, 
and while warm beat in two squares of Windsor soap previously 
reduced to a paste with rose water. 

Genuine Seidlitz Powders. 
Rochelle salts 2 drs., bi-carb. soda 2 scruples ; put these into 
a blue paper, and put 35 grs. tartaric acid into a white paper. 
To use, put each into different tumblers, fill one-half with wa- 
ter, adding a little loaf sugar to the acid, then pour together and 
drink quick. 

Oil of Roses. 
Olive oil 1 lb., ottar of roses 50 drops, oil rosemary 25 drops ; 
mix. Another — roses (barely opened) 12 oz., olive oil 16 oz., 
beat them together in a mortar, let them remain for a few days, 
then express the oil. 



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Hair Kestorative. 
Castor oil 8 oz., Jamaica rum 8 oz.,oil lavender 30 drops, 
oil rose 10 drops. Shake well and apply freely. 

Oriental Cold Cream. 
Oil almonds 4 oz., white wax and spermaceti, each 2 drs., 
melt and add rose water 4 oz., orange flower water 1 oz. To 
soften the skin, apply a cotton or linen cloth to the face, &c. 

Oil to Make the Hair Grow. 
Olive oil 1-2 pint, oils rosemary and origanum, each 1-6 oz. 
Apply freely. 

Ox Marrow. 
Melt 4 oz. ox tallow, white wax 1 oz., fresh lard 6 oz. ; when 
cold add 1 1-2 oz. oil bergamot. 

Macassar Oil. 
Olive oil 1 qt., alcohol 2 1-2 oz., rose oil 1 1-2 oz. ; then tie 1 oz. 
of chipped alkanet root in a muslin bag and put it in the oil, let 
it alone for some days until it turns the color a pretty red then 
remove to other oils. Do not press it. 

Cologne "Water. 
Oils rosemary and lemon, each 1-4 oz., oils bergamot and lav- 
ender, each 1-3 oz., oil cinnamon 8 drops, oils cloves and rose, 
each 15 drops, best deodorized alcohol 2 qts. ; shake two or three 
times a day for a week. 

Tunbridge "Wells "Water. 
Chloride of sodium 5 grs., tinct. steel 20 drops, distilled water 
1 1-2 pints. 

Bottled Seidlitz Water. 
Fill soda water bottles with clear water ; add to each as below, 
cork and wire immediately. Rochelle salts 3 drs., bicarbonate 
of soda 35 grs., sulphuric acid 11 drops. 

Sir James Clarke's Diarrhoea and Cholera Mixture. 
Tinct. opium, tinct. camphor, and spirits turpentine, each 3 
drs., oil peppermint 30 drops ; mix. Dose, one teaspoonful in 
brandy and water for diarrhoea, one tablespoonful for cholera. 



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Eye "Water. 
Sulphate of zinc 1 part, water 50 parts. Mix and apply night 
and morning. The bowels should be kept open at the same time. 

Barbers' Shampoo Mixture. 
Soft water 1 pt., sal soda 1 oz., cream tartar 1-4 oz. Apply 
thoroughly to the hair. 

Vegetable or Composition Powders. 
Fine bayberry bark 1 lb., ginger 8 oz., common cayenne 3 oz. ; 
mix. Dose, 1 teaspoonful in a cup of boiling water ; sweeten 
and add milk. This is the best powder on record. 

Substitute for Arrowroot. 
Finest potato starch 75 lbs., lump sugar 8 lbs., finely ground 
rice 21 lbs. Mix and sift through lawn. Yields 100 lbs. excel- 
lent arrowroot. 

Hair Dye. 
No. 1. — Crystalized nitrate of silver 1 dr., soft water 1 oz. No. 
2.— Sulphuret of potassium 1 dr., soft water 1 oz. Keep in sepa- 
rate bottles. Directions.— Cleanse the hair well, by washing, 
from grease and oil, then apply ISTos. 1 and 2 alternately, with 
different tooth brushes for each number ; when dry, wash well 
with soap. 

New York Barbers' Star Hair Oil. 
Castor oil 6 1-2 pts., alcohol 1. 1-2 pts., citronella and lavender 
oil, each 1-2 oz. 

Essences 
Are made with 1 oz. of any given oil added to one pint alcohol. 
Peppermint is colored with tinct. tumeric ; cinnamon with tinct. 
red sanders ; wintergreen with tinct. kino. 

Tinctures 
Are made with 1 oz. of gum, root, or bark, &c, dried, to each 
pint of proof spirits, and let it stand one week and filter. 

Kiss-me-quick. 
Spirits 1 gal., ess. thyme 1-4 oz., ess. orange flowers 2 oz., 
ess. neroli 1-2 oz., ottar roses 30 drops, ess. jasmin 1 oz., ess. 



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balm mint 1-2 oz., petals of roses 4 oz., oil lemon 20 drops, calo- 
rus aromaticus 1-2 oz. Mix and strain. 
Ladies' Own. 

Spirits wine 1 gal., ottar roses 20 drops, ess. thyme 1-2 oz., ess. 
neroli 1-4 oz., ess. vanilla 1-2 oz., ess. bergamot 1-4 oz., orange 
flower water 6 oz. 

Frangipanni. 

Spirits 1 gal., oil bergamot 1 oz., oil lemon 1 oz. ; macerate 4 
days, frequently shaking, then add water 1 gal., orange flower 
water 1 pint, ess. vanilla 2 oz. Mix. 

Jockey Club. 
Spirits of wine 5 gals., orange flower water 1 gal., balsam Peru 
4oz., ess. bergamot 8 oz., ess. musk 8 oz., ess. cloves 4 oz., ess. 
neroli 2 oz. ; mix. 

Upper Ten. 
Spirits wine 4 qts., ess. cedrat 2 drs., ess. violets 1-4 oz., ess. 
neroli 1-2 oz., ottar roses 20 drops, ess. orange flower 1 oz., oil 
rosemary 30 drops, oils bergamot and neroli, each 1-2 oz. 

Cologne. 

A superior article.— Take 90 per cent, best alcohol 1 gal., add 
to it 1 oz. oil of bergamot, 1 oz. of orange, 2 drs. oil of cedrat, 1 
dr. oil of nevoi, and 1 dr. oil of rosemary. Mix well, and it is 
fit for use. 

How to niake Oriental Tooth Powders. 

Take prepared chalk 2 oz., gum myrrh in fine powder 1 dr., 
Peruvian bark 1-2 oz., white sugar 1 oz., rose pink loz. ;mix 
well. This is one of the best tooth powders in use ; it cleans the 
teeth, hardens the gums and sweetens the breath, and can be 
made and sold at a moderate price. 

Bears' Oil. 

Use good sweet lard oil 1 qt., oil bergamot 1 1-2 oz. 

Dr. William's Celebrated Three Minute Salve. 
1 lb. caustic potash, 4 drs. belladonna, 2 oz. pure oxide man- 
ganese ; mix with 1-2 pint of water. Apply to a shaved wart or 



22 Recipes and Disclosures 

corn a few minutes, then wash off and soak in sweet oil. Put 
up in drachm bottles with showy labels. Sells at retail for 37 
cents, wholesale 25 cents. # 

Pulmonic "Wafers. 
Lump sugar, liquorice, and starch, each 2 parts, gum 10 parts, 
squills and ipecacuanha, each 5 parts, lactucarium 2 parts. Mix 
and divide into 8 gr. lozenges. 

How to make "Whiskers and Moustaches Grow Luxuri- 
antly, and be Rich, Soft and Glossy. 
Take 3 qts. rum, 1 pt. alcohol, 1 pt. water, 1-2 oz. tincture 
cantharides, 1-2 oz. carbonate ammonia. Dissolve the ammonia 
in the water, then add the solution to the other materials mixed 
together, and then shake them well together ; apply twice a day 
with the hand, rubbing in well. 

Cough Syrup. 
Put 1 quart hoarhound for 1 quart water, and boil it down to 
a pint ; add two or three sticks of liquorice, and a tablespoonful 
of essence of lemon. Take a teaspoonful of the syrup three 
times a day, or as often as the cough may be troublesome. This 
recipe has been sold for $100. Several firms are making much 
money by its manufacture. 

Bed Bug Poison. 

Take 1 pt. alcohol, 2 oz. sal-ammoniac, 1 pt. spirits turpen- 
tine, 2 oz. corrosive sublimate, and 2 oz. camphor gum. Dis- 
solve the camphor in the alcohol, then pulverize the corrosive 
sublimate and sal-ammoniac and add to it; after which put in 
the spirits turpentine and shake well together. This makes a 
first rate Bed Bug Exterminator, and sells at 25 cents per ounce 
phial. 

To make the Hair Soft and Glossy. 

Put 1 oz. of castor oil in one pint of bay rum or alcohol, and 
color it with a little of the tincture of alkanet root. Apply a lit- 
tle every morning. 

Sarsaparilla Mead. 
3 lbs. sugar, 3 oz. tartaric acid, 1 oz. cream tartar, 1 of flour, 1 



For Druggists and Perfumers. 23 

of essence of sarsaparilla, and 3 qts. water. Strain and bottle it, 
and let it stand ten days before using it. 

Sassafras Mead. 
Mix gradually [with 2 qts. of boiling water 3 1-2 lbs. good 
West India molasses, and 1-4 lb. tartaric acid. Stir it well, and 
when cool strain it into a large jar or pan, then mix in 1-4 oz. of 
essence of sassafras or lemon. 

Cure for Dysentery- 
Take new churned butter, before it is washed or salted, clarify 
over the fire, and skim off the milky particles; add 1-4 brandy 
to preserve it, and loaf sugar to sweeten ; let the patient (if an 
adult), take two table spoonfulls twice a day. The above is a 
sure cure, and is sold at a great profit. 

Dr. Duval's Medicated Lemonade. 
White sugar 1 lb., tartaric acid 1-4 oz., essence lemon 36 
drops ,jwater 3 qts. ; mix. 

Pure Vegetable Salve. 
1 lb. lard, 1-2 lb. rosin and 10 oz. elder bark. Boil these over 
a slow fire half an hour, then strain and put up in small boxes. 
This sells at 25 cents a box. 

Toothache Drops. 
Take spirits of camphor 1 oz., liquid ammonia 3 drs.,berga- 
raot 1Q drops. Rub— Apply on the jaw. 



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For Dentists, Clothiers, Boot and Shoe IVJakers, Tanners, 
Watch Makers, Artists, Jewelers, Gilders, Paint- 
ers, Confectioners, Cigar Makers, 
Business Men, &c, &c. 



Dentists' Composition for Filling Teeth. 
Gold 1 part, mercury 8 parts, incorporated by heating togeth- 
er; when mixed pour them into cold water, or tinfoil and quick- 
silver; melt together in a convenient vessel, take a small quan- 
tity, knead it in the palm of the hand and apply quick, or mix a 
little finely powdered glass with some mineral succedaneum, ap- 
ply as usual ; or take some mineral succedaneum and add some 
steel dust ; or mineral succedaneum mixed with levigated porce- 
lain or china ; or gypsum 1 part ; make into a paste with equal 
parts of quick-drying copal and mastic varnish, or 40 grains 
quicksilver; steel filings 20 grains; or silver 72 parts; tin 20 
parts ; zinc 6 parts. Better than either — pure gold 1 part, silver 
3 parts, tin 2 parts, melt the first two, add the tin, reduce all to 
a fine powder, use with an equal quantity of pure mercury. 

Colors for Confectioners. . 

Bed. — Cochineal 1 oz. ; boil 5 minutes in 1-2 pt. water ; then 
add cream tartar 1 oz., pounded alum 1-2 oz.; boil 10 minutes 
longer, add sugar 2 oz., and bottle for use. 

Blue. — Put a little warm water on a plate, and rub indigo in it 
till the required color is obtained. 

Yellow.— Rub with some water a littte gamboge on a plate, or 



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infuse the heart of a yellow lily flower with milk warm water. 

Gfeen.— Boil the leaves of spinach about one minute hi a little 
water, and when strained bottle for use. 

Transparent Japan. 

Oil turpentine 8 oz., oil lavender 6 oz., camphor 1 drachm, 
bruised copal 2 oz. Very fine. 

Another. Pale African copal 7 lbs., fuse, add clarified linseed 
oil 1 gal., boil 5 minutes, remove to the open air, add boiling 
oil of turpentine 3 gals. ; mix well, strain, and cover close. 

Molasses Candy. 
W. I. molasses 1 gal., brown sugar 3 lbs., boil them in a pre- 
serve kettle over a slow fire. When done enough it will cease 
boiling. Stir frequently while boiling, and when nearly done 
stir in the juice of four lemons, or two teaspoonfulls of essence 
lemon, afterward butter a pan and pour out. 

Fire and "Waterproof Paint. 
"Water a sufficient quantity, and as much potash as it will dis- 
solve, then stir into the solution a quantity of flour paste of the 
consistency of painters' size, then a sufficiency of pure clay to 
render it of the consistency of cream; color as desired, and apply 
with a painters' brush. 

To Remove Corns and Warts in Five Minutes. 
Common potash, 1 lb., dissolve in 1-2 pint water; add 1-2 oz. 
belladonna extract and 1 oz. gum arable, dissolved in a little 
water, and work all into a paste with wheat flour. Take a small 
quantity of the paste, and after having pared off the dead part of 
the corn or wart, put on the paste and let it remain from 5 to 8 
minutes, when you will work around it with a sharp knife and 
lift it out, and apply sweet oil or vinegar to kill the alkali, or ap- 
ply aqua fortis twice per day, in a small quantity, till cured; and 
! they will leave without pain or trouble in a short time. 

"Water and Fireproof Cement for Roofing. 
Slake stone lime with boiling water in a covered barrel. 
• When slaked, pass 6 qts. through a fine sieve; to this, add rock 
salt 1 qt., water 1 gal. ; boil the mixture and skim it clean. To 



26 Recipes and Disclosures. 

every 5 gals, of this mixture add alum 1 lb., copperas 1-2 lb. ; by 
slow degrees add potash 3-4 lb., line sand or wood ashes sifted 4 
qts. ; color to suit. Durable as Stone. 

Sugar from the Chinese Cane. 
Let the stalks be frozen before they are cut, then pass them 
through a mill with iron rollers, which expresses the chrystal- 
izable juice. This is the juice which when boiled, forms the 
sugar. Wooden rollers will not express this juice. 

Musquitoes Expelled "Without Smoke. 
Wet a sponge or flannel with camphor spirits, and suspend it 
by a thread from a bedpost or the ceiling; certain remedy. 

To keep Milk Sweet, and Sweeten Sour Milk. 
Put in the milk a small quantity of carbonate of magnesia. 

Japanners' Gold Size. 
Gum ammoniac 1 lb., boiled oil 8 oz., spirits turpentine 12 oz. 
Melt the gum, add the oil, lastly the spirits turpentine. 

To Purify "Wells and Cisterns. 
Nothing can equal the purifying effect of a bagful of pulver- 
ized charcoal thrown into a well and let swim about. 

To make Devices in Sugar. 
Powdered lump sugar any quantity, make it into a paste with 
mucilage, and mould to suit. 

Electro Gold Plating. 
Take a quarter eagle and put it into a mixture of 1 oz. nitric 
and 4 oz. muriatic acid (glass vessels only are to be used in this 
work) ; when it is all cut, dissolve 1-2 oz. sulphate of potash in 
1 pt. pure rain water, and mix with the gold solution, stirring 
well ; then let it stand and the gold will be thrown down ; then 
pour off the acid fluid and wash the gold in two or three waters, 
or until no acid is tasted by touching the tongue to the gold. 
Now dissolve 1 oz. cyanuret of potassium in 1 pt. pure rain wa- 
ter, to which add the gold, and it is ready for use. Clean the 
article to be plated from all grease and dirt with whiting and a 
good brush; if there are cracks, it may be necessary to put the 



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irticle in a solution of caustic potash ; at all events clean it per- 
fectly ; then suspend it in the cyanuret of gold solution with a 
mall strip of zinc, cut about the width of a common knitting 
needle, hooking the top over a stick which will reach across the 
top of the vessel holding the solution. If the zinc is too large, 
the deposit will be made so fast it will scale off. The slower the 
plating goes on the better, and this is arranged by the size of the 
zinc used. When not in use keep it well corked and out of the 
way of children, for it is poisonous. 

Electro Silver Plating 
Is done every way the same as gold (using coin), except that 
rock salt is used instead of the cyanuret of potassium, to hold the 
silver in solution for use, and when it is of the proper strength 
)f salt, it has a thick curdy appearance, or you can add salt until 
uhe silver will deposit on the article to be plated, which is all 
hat is required. This method entails no trouble with using a 
battery, and is the successful result of a long series of experi- 
ments in electro plating. 

Imitations of Silver. 
Copper lib., tin 3-4 oz. ; melt. This composition will roll 
and ring very near to silver. Britannia Metal. — Copper 1 lb., 
•tin 1 lb., regulus of antimony 2 lbs. ; melt together with or with- 
out a little bismuth. Genuine German Silver. — Iron 2 1-2 
parts, zinc 25 1-2 parts, nickel 31 1-2 parts, copper 40 1-2 parts ; 
melt. Fine White German Silver.— Iron 1 part, nickel 10 parts, 
zinc 10 parts, copper 20 parts; melt. Pinchbeck. — Copper 5 
parts, zinc 1 part; melt the copper, then add the zinc. Jewel- 
ers? Metal.— Copper 30 parts, tin 7 parts, brass 10 parts ; mix. 

Paints— Different Sorts. 
Blue— Blue-black 25 lbs., whiting 100 lbs., road dust 200 lbs., 
lime water 12 gals., factitious linseed oil to grind. 

White— Whiting 500 lbs., white lead 400 lbs., lime water 20 
gals;, factitious linseed oil to mix. 

Black.— Ivory or lamp black 100 lbs., road dust 200 lbs., lime 
water 15 gals., oil to grind. 
Brown.— Venetian red or Spanish brown 1 cwt.,road dust 3 



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cwt., common soot 28 lbs., lime water 15 gals., factitious linseed 
oil to grind. 

Stains for Wood- Six Colors. 
Bed. — Brazil wood 11 parts, alum 4 parts, water 85 parts ; boil. 
Blue. — Logwood 7 parts, blue vitriol 1 part, water 22 parts ; boil. 
Black. — Logwood 9 parts, sulphate of iron 1 part, water 25 parts ; 
boil. Green. — Verdigris 1 part, vinegar 3 parts ; dissolve. Yel- 
low.— French berries 7 parts, water 10 parts, alum 1 part; boil. 
Purple.— Logwood 11 parts, alum 3 parts, water 29 parts ; boil. 

The Finest Bronze. 
Put in a crucible 7 lbs. copper; melt; then add 3 lbs. zinc ; 
afterwards 2 lbs. tin. 

Substitute for White Lead. 
Hard cake stearine 100 lbs., bleached resin 90 lbs., fine potato 
starch 25 parts ; melt and mix well ; then add mucilage 20 lbs. ; 
stir well till nearly cold, then put away for use. 

Brass. 

First (fine brass), melt 4 1-2 lbs. copper in a crucible, then add 
1 1-2 lbs. zinc. Second (fine), copper 2 lbs., melt, add zinc 1 lb. 
Very Strong Solder.— 3 parts brass and 1 of zinc ; melt. Fine 
Solder for Tin, djc-Tin 2 lbs., lead 1 lb. ; melt together. 

Seven Colors for Staining Marble. 
It is necessary to heat the marble hot, but not so hot as to in- 
jure it, the proper heat being that at which the colors nearly 
boil. Blue. — Alkaline indigo dye, or turnsole with alkali. Bed. 
— Dragon's blood in spirits of wine. Yellow.— Gamboge in spir- 
its of wine. Gold Color. — Sal ammoniac, sulphate of zinc, and 
verdigris, equal parts. Green. — Sap green, in spirits with pot- 
ash. Brown. — Tincture of logwood. Crimson. — Alkanet root 
in turpentine. Marble may be veined according to taste. To 
stain marble well is a difficult operation. 

Jewelers' Gold Composition. 
Common Gold. — Silver 1 part, Spanish copper 16 parts, gold 2 
parts ; mix. Bing Gold. — Spanish copper 6 parts, silver 3 parts, 
gold 5 parts; mix. Manheim Gold.— Copper 3 parts, zinc 1 



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part ; melt and stir well. Mosaic Gold.— Copper and zinc equal 
parts ; melt at the lowest temperature that will fuse the former, 
then mix by stirring, and add 5 per cent, more zinc. Parker's 
Mosaic Gold.— Copper 100 parts, zinc 54 parts ; mix. Common 
Jewelry.— Copper 3 parts, old brass 1 part, and ioz. tin to every 
lb. of copper. 

To Clean Old Marble. 
Take a bullock's gall, 1 gill soap lees, 1-3 gill turpentine, make 
into paste with pipe clay, apply it to the marble, let it dry a day 
or two, then rub it off, and it will appear equal to new. If very 
dirty, repeat the application. 

Jewelers' Turkish Cement. 
Put into a bottle 2 oz. isinglass and 1 oz. best gum arabic, cover 
them with proof spirit, cork loosely, and place the bottle in a 
vessel of water and boil till a thorough solution is effected, then 
strain for use. Best cement known. 

Keviver for Old Jewelry. 
Dissolve sal ammoniac in urine and put the jewelry in it for a 
short time, then take it out and rub with chamois leather, and it 
will appear equal to new. 

To Gild Polished Steel. 
In order to gild polished steel or iron, dip the article into an 
ethereal solution of gold, withdraw from the solution and the 
ether flies off and leaves the gold deposited. 

To Recover Gold from Gilt Metal. 
Take a solution of borax water, apply to the gilt surface, and 
sprinkle over it some finely powdered sulphur, make the article 
red hot, and quench it in water, then scrape off the gold, and re- 
cover it by means of lead. 

To Separate Gold and Silver from Lace, &e. 
Cut in pieces the gold or silver lace, tie it up tightly and boil 
it in soap ley till the size appears diminished ; take the cloth out 
of the liquid, and after repeated rinsings in cold water, beat it 
with a mallet to draw out all the alkali. Open the linen and the 
pure metal will be found in all its beauty. 



30 Recipes and Disclosures. 

Reviver for Gilt Frames. 

Whites of eggs 2 oz., chloride of potassa or soda 1 oz. ; mix 
well ; blow off the dust from the frames, then go over them with 
a soft brush dipped in the mixture, and they will appear equal 
to new. 

Gun Cotton. 

Take dry saltpetre 1-2 oz., strong oil vitriol 3-4 oz., mix in a 
tumbler, add 20 grs. dry cotton; stir with a glass rod five min- 
utes, remove the cotton and wash from it all traces of the acid in 
four or five waters, then dry carefully under 120° . 

How to Photograph on Glass. 
To make collodion, dissolve 20 grs. gun cotton in 6 oz. sul- 
phuric ether, to which add alcohol 3-4 oz. ; let it stand a 
short time and pour oil' the clear into bottle No. 1, for use. In 
bottle No. 2 put 1 oz. alcohol and as much iodide of ammonium 
as it will dissolve ; then add as much iodide of silver (made from 
nitrate of silver and iodide of potassium) as the solution will 
take up. Get another botttle, No. 3, with a wide mouth, into it 
put 1 oz. out of No. 1, to which add 15 or 20 drops out of No. 2. 
The collodion thus formed is called collodio-iodide of silver. 
Having well cleaned a plate of glass of the size of the frame -in 
your camera, coat it completely and very evenly on one side by 
pouring the collodion on the centre from the bottle ; pour back 
any excess of liquid from one corner of the glass, and in this 
way you coat the plate in a uniform manner. To prepare the 
plate thus coated for the camera, plunge it carefully and quickly 
into a bath of the following proportions, then allow it to remain 
covered in the solution about two minutes : Distilled water 1 
oz., nitrate of silver 30 grs., alcohol 30 drops; dissolve and fil- 
ter. Obtain a good focus, place the plate in the frame and the 
frame in the camera, pull up the slide in front, and expose a 
proper length of time; having closed your slide, remove the 
frame to your dark room, take out the plate and develope the 
picture with the following solution, holding the plate perfectly 
level, the collodion side upward, and pouring enough of it onj 
the plate to cover it, in a short time the picture will be develop- 
ed: Water 1 oz., copperas 14 grs., saltpetre 10 grs., acetic acid 



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1-2 dr., nitric acid 2 drops ; then wash with water and pour over 
it some of the solution of hyposulphite of soda made thus : water 
1 pt., hyposulphite of soda 4 oz. ; allow it to remain two min- 
utes, then wash off thoroughly, and your picture is finished. By 
this process a most beautiful picture is obtained in a space of 
time varying from a fraction of a second up to fifteen seconds, 
with the most perfect detail of all the parts. 

Paper for Photographing. 
Wash the paper with a solution of nitrate of silver 6 grs., dis- 
tilled water 1-2 oz. ; dry the paper and wash it with iodine of 
potassium 5 grs., distilled water 1-2 oz. ; dry with a gentle heat, 
repeat the wash with the silver solution, and when dry, the 
paper is ready for use. The sensitive surface is an iodide of 
silver, and is easily affected by light. 

Ink for Painting on Glass. 
Common cheap varnish or Brunswick black, diluted with half 
its weight of oil turpentine ; color to suit. 

Powerful Cement for Broken Marble. 
Take gum arabic 1 lb., make it into a thick mucilage, add to it 
powdered plaster of paris 1 1-2 lbs., sifted quicklime 5 oz. ; mix 
well, heat the marble, and apply the mixture. 

Perpetual Ink for Tombstones, &c. 
Pitch 11 lbs., lamp black 1 lb., turpentine sufficient ; mix with 
heat. 

Pure "Watchmakers' Oil. 
Take olive oil and put it into a bottle, then insert coils of thin 
sheet lead. Expose it to the sun for a few weeks, and pour off 
the clear. 

Cheap Tanning "Without Bark or Mineral Astringents. 

The astringent liquor is composed of water IT gals., aleppo 
galls 1-2 lb., Bengal catechu 1 1-2 oz. and 5 lbs. tormentil or 
stepfoil root. Powder the ingredients and boil in the water one 
hour, when cool put in the skins (which must be prepared by 
being plunged into a preparation of bran and water for two days 
previously) handle them frequently during the first three days, 



32 Recipes and Disclosures. 

let them alone the next three days, then handle three or four 
times in one day, let them lie undisturbed for 25 days more, 
when the process will be complete. 

Liquid Japan for Leather. 
Molasses 8 lbs., lamp black 1 lb., sweet oil 1 lb., gum arabic 1 
lb., isinglass 1 lb. ; mix well in 32 lbs. water, apply heat, when 
cool add 1 qt. alcohol — an ox's gall will improve it. 

Water-Proof Oil Blacking. 
Camphene 1 pt., add all the india rubber it will dissolve, cur- 
rier's oil 1 pt., tallow 7 lbs., lamp black 2 oz. Mix thoroughly 
by heat. 

To Dye Leather Blue, Red or Purple. 
Bed. — steep it in alum water, then pass it through a warm 
decoction of Brazil wood. Blue.— Steep it in an indigo vat. 
Purple. — Steep the skins in alum water, then in a warm decoc- 
tion of logwood. 

Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge Color. 
Water 2 qts., logwood 3-4 oz., gum arabic 96 grs., bi-chromate 
of potash 48 grs., prussiate of potash 8 grs. ; boil the extract 2 i 1 
minutes, remove from the fire, and stir in the others, and it is - 
ready for use. Premium article. 

Brilliant French Varnish for Leather. 
Spirits wine 3-4 pt., vinegar 5 pts., gum Senegal in powder 1-2 ! 
lb., loaf sugar 6 oz., powdered galls 2 oz., green copperas 4 oz. 
Dissolve the gum and sugar in the water, strain and put on a il 
slow fire, but don't boil; now put in the galls, copperas audi 1 
alcohol, stir them well for five minutes, set oil', and when near- 
ly cool strain through flannel and bottle for use. It is applied I 1 
with a pencil brush. Most superior. 

To Baise a Nap on Cloth. 
After the article is properly cleaned, soak it in cold water for 
half an hour, put it on a board and rub the threadbare parts 
with a half-worn hatter's card filled with flocks, or with a tea- 
zel or a prickly thistle, until a nap is raised, then lay the nap 
the right way with a hard brush, and hang up to dry. 



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Gold Varnish for Iron, Leather, Wood or Stone. 

Tumeric 1 dr., gamboge 1 dr., oil turpentine 2 pts., shellac 5 
>z., sandarach 5 oz., dragon's blood 7 drs., thin mastic varnish 
ioz. ; digest with occasional agitation for fourteen days, then 
et aside to refine, and pour oft* the clear. 

Black xteviver for Broadcloth. 
Bruised galls 1 lb., logwood 2 lbs., green vitriol 1-2 lb., water 
' qts. ; boil two hours, strain, and it is ready for use. 

Potter's Patent Invisible "Waterproof for Cloth. 

Imbue the cloth on the wrong side with a solution of isin- 
lass, alum and soap, dissolved in water, forming an emulsion 
f a milky thickness; apply with a brush, rubbing in well. 
Vhen dry it is brushed on the wrong side against the grain, 
nd then gone over with a brush dipped in water, afterwards 
rushed down smooth. 

Common Waterproof.— Boiled oil 15 lbs., beeswax 1 lb., 
round litharge 3 lbs. ; mix, and apply with a brush, the article 
ieing previously stretched against a wall or on a table, after 
eing well washed. To remove grease spots from cloth, apply 
terpentine to soften, then rub well with castile soap, and after- 
wards wash off with more turpentine. 

Clothing Renovator. 
j Soft water 1 gal. ; make a strong decoction of logwood by boil- 
jig the extract with the water; strain. When cool add 2 oz. 
urn arabic in powder, bottle, cork well and set aside for use. 
(•lean the garment well from grease and dirt and apply the above 
quid with a sponge, evenly. Dilute to suit the color, and 
ang in the shade to dry; afterwards brush the nap smooth and 
; will look like new. 

Varnish— Five Different Sorts. 

Common Oil Varnish.— -Resin 4 lbs., beeswax 1-2 lb., boiled 
il 1 gal. ; mix with heat, then add spirits turpentine 2 qts. 

Mastic Varnish.— -Mastic 1 lb., white wax 1 oz., oil turpen- 
ne 1 gal. ; reduce the gums small, then digest it with heat in a 
ose vessel till dissolved. 



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34 Recipes and Disclosures. 

Cabinet Makers' Varnish. — Pale shellac 700 lbs., mastic 6 
lbs., strongest alcohol 1000 lbs.; dissolve. Dilute with alcohol 
Small quantity, same proportions. 

Turpentine Varnish.— Resin 1 lb., boiled oil 1 lb. ; melt, the 
add turpentine 2 lbs. ; mix well. 

Copal Varnish {pale). — Pale African copal 1 part; fuse, the) 
add hot pale oil 2 parts. Boil till the mixture is stringy, the}, 
cool a little, and add spirits turpentine 3 parts. 

Savage's Printing Ink. 
Pure balsam copaiba 9 oz., lampblack 3 oz., indigo and prusi 
sian blue, each 5 drs., Indian red 3-4 oz., yellow soap 3 oz. ; mi: 
and grind to the utmost smoothness. 

German Fly Paper. 
Take 2 oz. dry starch in powder, add 1 oz. arsenic, and mi; 
completely together, afterwards make them into a thin solutio 
with sweetened water, then dip sheets of common brown pape. 
into the mixture, saturate completely and hang up to dry. 

Red-Hot Fireballs Skipping on "Water. 

If you throw a few grains of that wonderful substance callei 

potassium on the surface of cold water, it will at once burst info 

a beautiful rose-colored flame and skip from side to side of thl 

vessel in a wonderful manner. 

Fire Proofing for Clothing. 

Make a strong solution of alum in water or sal amoniac, o< 
ammonia will answer equally well. Soak the fabric well in tliit 
solution, afterwards dry. This treatment imparts to cotton d 
linen incombustibility. 

Important to Clothiers. 

To prevent the ravages of moths, sprinkle cayenne peppei 
cloves, pepper corns, pimento corns, or the cuttings of Russia 
leather among the clothes; or oven-dried cloves, cedar ani 
rhubarb, each 1 oz., well powdered and mixed, will preserv 
and perfume the clothing. 

Compound Tobacco from Herbs. 
Thyme, marjoram and hyssop, each 2 lbs., coltsfoot 3 lbs I 



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•etony and eyebright, each 4 lbs., rosemary and lavender, each 
lbs. ; mix, press together, and cut in imitation of common 

obaeco. 

For Cigar Makers. — Water 1 gal-, molasses 1 qt., refined 
itre 2 oz., juice of the herbs coltsfoot, lovage and betony,eaeh 

oz., oil birch 2 drs., tobacco camphor 5 grs. ; the two last must 
\e dissolved in a little alcohol before mixing ; stir the whole 
3gether ; immerse your inferior or common tobacco in the mix- 
ire for 4 days ; afterwards dry out of the sun, and you will have 
)bacco equal to the best imported. 

Best Harness Varnish Extant. 

Alcohol 1 gal., white turpentine 1 1-2 lbs., gum shellac 11-2 
)s., Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let them stand by the stove till 
legums are dissolved, then add sweet oil 1 gill, and color if you 
dsh it, with lampblack 2 oz. This will not crack like the old 
arnish. 

Another.— Melt together 8 oz. beeswax and 1 oz. oil turpen- 
ne ; add 2 oz. ivory black, 1 oz. prussian blue, 1-4 oz. copal 
arnish ; apply with a brush and polish with a duster. 

Another. — Isinglass, or gelatine, and indigo, each 1-4 oz., log- 
rood 4 oz., soft soap 2 oz., glue 4 oz., vinegar lpt. ; mix by 
,3at, and strain. 

Cement for Leather and Cloth. 

Gutta percha 1 lb., india rubber 4 oz., pitch 2 oz., shellac 1 
p., oil 2 oz. ; melt and use hot. 

iCement for Mending Crockery, "Which is Transparent. 

i Take 1 lb., white shellac, pulverized, 2 oz. clean gum mastic; 
at these into a bottle, and then add 1-2 lb. of sulphuric ether, 
et it stand half an hour, and then add half a gallon 90 per cent, 
icohol ; shake occasionally till it is dissolved. Heat the edges 
f the article to be metided, and apply the cement with a pencil 
rush; hold the article firmly together till the cement cools. 

Furniture Polish. 
: Take 1 lb. of beeswax and scrape it into shavings in a pan ; 
Id half a gallon spirits of turpentine, and 1 pint linseed oil. 
et it remain for twelve hours, then stir it well with a stick into 



36 Recipes and Disclosures. 

liquid; while stirring add 1-4 lb. shellac varnish, and 1 oz. alka 
net root. Put this mixture into a gallon jar, and stand it befor 
a fire, or in an oven for a week, (to keep it just warm), shake i 
up three or four times a day. Then strain it through a hai 
sieve into half and quarter pint bottles, corked and sealed witi 
a pretty label in front. Directions for Use.— Pour about a tej 
spoonful on a ward of baize, go lightly over the face and othe 
parts of mahogony furniture, then apply a similar ward drj 
briskly, and in three minutes it will produce a dark brilliar , 
polish unequaled. This recipe is of great value. 

Patent Gold and Silver Counterfeit Detecter. 

Any man of common business tact cannot fail to make a fin 
rate living by the sale of it. No man will think a dollar i J 
spent for this information alone, as it is a certain detecter. 

Becipe.— Take 1 oz. nitrate of silver, pure crystals, and 1 qij 
pure rain water; add together, shake well, and it is ready ftij 
use. To be put up in very small phials. Retail for 25 cents. J 

Magic Copying Paper. 
Lard oil, mixed as follows : Blue Baper. — Prussian blue, i 
thick as cream. Black Baper.— Lamp black. Bed Baper.- \ 
Venetian red. Green Baper. — Chrome green. Put on papei , 
corresponding with the colored paint. Put on with a spong; 
and wipe off as dry as convenient. Then lay them in alterna 
layers with sheets not colored, and press until the oil is out ; 
nearly as possible. Cut the sheets four inches wide and i 
inches long; put four sheets together, one of each color, an 
sell for 25 cents per package. The first cost will not excet| 
three cents. Directions for writing ivith this paper. — Lu 
down the paper upon which you wish to write or draw, th< 
lay on the copying paper, and over this, lay any scrap of papi 
you choose ; then take any hard pointed substance, and write 
you would with a pen. 

Green Paint, Cheap and Beautiful. 

Take 4 lbs. Roman vitriol, pour on a tea-kettle of boiling w 
ter; when dissolved, add 2 lbs. pearlash, and stir the mixtu 
well with a stick until the effervescence ceases ; then add ] 



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b. of pulverized yellow arsenic, and stir the whole together 
veil with a stick. Lay it on with a paint brush, and if the work 
las not been painted before, two or even three coats will be re- 
uired. If a pea green is required, put in less, if an apple 
Teen, more of the yellow arsenic. 

How to Plate Copper, Brass, or German Silver. 

! First, cut into small pieces a 25 cent piece, and put it into an 
arthern vessel with 1-2 oz. nitric acid. Second, put the vessel 
tito warm water, uncovered, until it dissolves. Third, add 1-2 
;ill of water, and 1 teaspoonful fine salt; let it settle. Fourth, 
[rain off and repeat, adding water to the sediment until the acid 
aste is all out of the water. Fifth, add, finally, about a pint of 
mre water to the sediment, and 4 scruples of cyanide of potash, 
nd all is ready. Sixth, put in the bottom of the solution a piece 
f lime, about two inches long, one inch wide, and one-eighth 
f an inch thick. After cleaning, immerse the article to be 
dated in the solution about half a minute, letting it rest on the 
inc. Seventh, wipe off with a dry cloth, and repeat once. Pol- 
sh with buckskin. Thickness of plate can be increased by 
Repeating. 

How to Build Gravel Houses, 
i This is the best building material in the world. It is four 
imes cheaper than wood, six times cheaper than stone, and 
tuperior to either. Proportions for mixing : To 8 barrows of 
ilaked lime, well deluged with water, add 15 barrows of sand : 
inix these to a creamy consistency, then add 60 barrows of coarse 
gravel, which must be worked well and completely; you can 
fhen throw stones into this mixture of any shape or size, up to 
».0 inches in diameter. Form moulds for the walls of the house 
i»y fixing boards horizontally against upright standards, which 
must be immovably braced so that they will not yield to the 
mmense pressure outward as the material settles; set the stand- 
rds in pairs around the building where the walls are to stand, 
com 6 to 8 feet apart, and so wide that the inner space shall form 
he thickness of the wall. Into the moulds thus formed, throw 
n the concrete material as fast as you choose, and the more pro- 
miscuously the better. In a short time the gravel will get as 



38 Recipes and Disclosures. 

hard as the solid rock. Full directions for building by this 
method can be obtained in Fowler & Wells' book, entitled 
" Home for All." 

How to Write on Glass in the Sun. 

Dissolve chalk in aqua fortis to the consistency of milk, aud 
add to that a strong solution of silver. Keep this in a glass 
decanter well stopped. Then cut out from a paper the letted 
you would have appear, and paste the paper on the decanter or 
jar which you are to place in the sun in such a manner that its 
rays may pass through the spaces cut out of the paper, and fall 
on the surface ot the liquor. The part of the glass through 
which the rays pass will turn black, whilst that under the paper 
will remain white. Do not shake the bottle during the opera- 
tion. Useful for lettering jars, &c, for druggists. 

To Petrify Wood. 

Gem salt, rock alum, white vinegar, chalk, and pebbles pow- ' 

der, of each an equal quantity. Mix well together. If after the 

ebullition is over, you throw into this liquid any wood or porous 

substance it will turn into stone in 4 or 5 days. 

Storm Glasses. 
Camphor 4 parts, powdered sal ammoniac 1 part, alcohol 
parts. Dissolve and keep in a glass tube or bottle, covered with 
bladder. 

To Prevent Fiies Injuring Picture Frames, Glasses, &e. 
Boil three or four onions in a pint of water, then with a gild- 
ing brush do over your glasses and frames, aud the flies will not 
light on the article so washed. This may be used without ap- 
prehension, as it will not do the least injury to the frame. 

Positive Cure for Poll Evil or Fistula. 
Common potash dissolved in 1-2 pint water, 1 lb. ; add 1-2 oz. . 
belladonna extract and 1 oz. gum arabic, dissolved in a little 
water, work all into a paste with wheat flour, and bottle up 
tight. Directions. — Clean the sores well with castile soap suds, 
then apply tallow all around them, next press the above paste 



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b the bottom of the orifice ; if they are very deep, dilute the 
mixture and inject it with a small syringe to the very bottom. 
Kpeat every two days till the callous fibrous base around the 
)oll evil or fistula is completely destroyed. If very bad, put a 
biece of oiled cloth over the sores, which can be healed after- 
vards with Sloan's horse liniment. 

To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead. 
| This apparent impossibility is easily performed by heating the ■ 
Kir of iron or steel red hot, and then touching it with a roll of 
orimstone, when the metal will drop like water. Red hot iron 
km be easily cut with a saw. 

The Hew and Beautiful Art of Transferring on to Glass. 

Colored or plain Engravings, Photographs, Lithographs, 
Yater Colors, Oil Colors, Crayons, Steel Plates, Newspaper 
]uts, Mezzotinto, Pencil Writing, Show Cards, Labels— or, in 
act, anything. Directions.-— Take glass that is perfectly clear— 
vindow glass will answer— clean it thoroughly ; then varnish it, 
i aking care to have it perfectly smooth ; place it where it will 
)e entirely free from dust ; let it stand over night ; then take 
■gar engraving, lay it in clear water until it is wet through (say 
en or fifteen minutes), then lay it upon a newspaper, that the 
noisture may dry from the surface, and still keep the other side 
lamp. Immediately varnish your glass the second time, then 
)lace your engraving on it, pressing it down firmly, so as to ex- 
lude every particle of air ; next rub the paper from the back, 
intil it is of uniform thickness — so thin that you can see through 
t, then varnish it the third time, and let it dry. Materials 
ised for the above Art. — Take two ounces balsam of fir, to one 
tunce of spirits of turpentine. Apply with a camel's hair brush. 

How to Form Water Springs. 
The finest springs can be made by boring, which is done by 
brcing an iron rod into the earth by its own weight, turning it 
•ound and forcing it up and down by a spring pole contrivance. 
Phe water will sometimes spout up several feet above the sur- 
ace. Tin pipes are put down in the hole after the water is 
ound. Depressed situations having a southern exposure with 



40 Recipes and Disclosures. 

rising ground towards the north are the best situations in the 
United States or the Canadas to find water. 

To Extract Teeth Without Pain. 
The Parisian dentists use ice very successfully in their busi- 
ness. If properly applied to a tooth, or the gum covering a 
tooth, for five or six minutes previous to extraction, it will pro- 
duce almost total insensibility to pain during the operation, if it 
.is performed quickly. A slight shock with a properly arranged 
galvanic battery will produce the same effect. The above are 
equally applicable to deaden pain previous to any surgical oper 
ation. 

To Burn Lime "Without a Kiln. 

Make a pyramidal pile of large limestones with an arched fu 
nace next the ground for putting in the fuel, leaving a narro 
vent or funnel at the top ; now cover the whole pile with earth 
or turf in the way that charcoal heaps are covered, and put in 
the fire. The heat will be more completely diffused through the 
pile if the apperture in the top is partially closed. This produces 
a superior article of lime. 

Fire Under "Water. 
This singular phenomenon is caused by placing a quantity of 
pulverized chlorate of potash in an empty tumbler ; put a few 
chips of phosphorus on the chlorate of potash. Now fill the 
tumbler with water and pass a small quantity of sulphuric acid 
through a glass tube on the phosphorus in the tumbler, which 
will at once take fire and burn with great splendor. 



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Brewers' Department. 



Giving Directions for the Manufacture of nearly all the 

Domestic Wines, Ciders, Beers, and other Drinks, 

how to Preserve them, and to Restore 

them when Injured. 



Notice to Brewers. 

"Where spirits are mentioned, it signifies high wines rectified 
and reduced to hydrometer proof. Proof spirit signifies the 
same thing. Common whisky is much below this proof, but a 
good substitute may be produced from rectified whisky by de- 
priving it of its taste and odor, by means of a process which 
renders it suitable for use. The whisky should be of proper 
strength and treated as follows : (this process destroys the fusil 
oil. and precipitates the verdigris to the bottom.) 

To 40 gals, whisky add 1 1-2 lbs. unslaked lime, 3-4 lb. pow- 
dered alum, and 1-2 pt. spirits of nitre; stir well and let it stand 
24 hours. Then draw off into another cask, avoiding the sedi- 
ment. It is then fit for use. This is called neutral spirits. All 
oils used must be cut in 90 per cent, alcohol, using 1 qt. alcohol 
to 2 oz. oil, and it should stand 24 hours before using. 

Cider "Without Apples. 
Water 1 gal., common sugar 1 lb., tartaric acid 1-2 oz., yeast 
1 tablespoonful: shake well; make in the evening, and it will 
be fit for use the next day. In quantities for bottling, put in a 
barrel 5 gals, hot water, 30 lbs. common sugar, 3-4 lb. tartaric 
acid. 25 gals, cold water, 3 pts. hop or brewer's yeast worked 



42 Recipes and Disclosures. 

into paste with 1 pt. water and 1 lb. flour. Let it work in the 
barrel 48 hours,, the yeast running out at the bung all the time, 
putting in a little occasionally to keep it full; then bottle, put- 
ting in two or three broken raisins to each bottle, and it will 
nearly equal champagne. 

Another. — Soft water 8 gals., brown sugar 8 lbs., tartaric acid 
7 oz., yeast 1 qt. ; mix well in a cask, stirring thoroughly; after 
standing 24 hours with the bung out, then bung up close, add 1 
gal. spirits, let it stand 48 hours, when it is ready for use. 

Champagne Cider. 
Good pale cider 8 gals., spirits 3 gals., sugar 4 lbs. ; mix, and 
let it stand two weeks, then fine with 1-2 gal. skimmed milk. 
This will be very pale, and a similar article, when properly 
bottled and labeled, opens so brisk that even good judges have 
mistaken it for genuine champagne. 

Superior Raisin Wine. 
Take 30 lbs. chopped raisins, free from stems and dust, put 
them in a large keg, and add 8 gals, soft water, let them stand 
two weeks unbunged, shaking occasionally (in a warm place in 
winter), then strain through woolen or filter, color with burnt 
sugar, bottle and cork well for use. For bar use, add 1 pt. good 
brandy to each gallon. The more raisins the better the wine, 
not exceeding 5 lbs. to each gal. 

Currant and Other Fruit "Wine. 
To every gal. of expressed juice add l.gal. soft water, 8 lbs. 
brown sugar, 1 1-2 oz. cream tartar, and 1 pt. brandy to every 6 
gals. Some prefer it without brandy. After fermentation take 
4 oz. isinglass dissolved in 1 pt. of the wine, and put to each 
barrel, which will fine and clear it, when it must be drawn into 
clean casks, or bottled, which is preferable. 

Raisin "Wine Equal to Sherry. 
Boil the proper quantity of water and let it stand till cold. 
To each gal. of this water add 4 lbs. chopped raisins, previously 
well washed and freed from stalks ; let the whole stand for one 
month, stirring frequently, then remove the raisins and bung 
up closely for one month more, then rack into another vessel, 



Brewers' Department. 43 

leaving all sediment behind, which must be repeated till it be- 
comes fine; then to every 10 gals, add 6 lbs. line sugar, and 1 
doz. good oranges, the rinds being pared very thin and infused 
in 2 qts. brandy, which should be added to the liquor at its last 
racking. Let the whole stand three months in the cask, then 
bottle. It should remain bottled 12 months. To give it the fla- 
vor of madeira, when it is in the cask put in a couple of green 
citrons, and let them remain until the wine is bottled. 

Port Wine. 

Worked cider 40 gals., good port wine 12 gals., good brandy 
3 gals., pure spirits 6 gals. ; mix. Elderberries and sloes and 
the fruit of the black haw, make a fine purple color for wines, 
or use burnt sugar. 

Various "Wines. 

To 28 gals, clarified cider add 1 gal good brandy, crude tartar 
(this is what is deposited by grape wines) 1 lb., of any kind of 
wine you wish to imitate 5 gals., sweet milk to settle it 1 pint. 
Draw off 36 hours after thoroughly mixing. 

British Madeira. 

Pale malt 1 bush., boiling water 12 gals.; mash and strain; 

then add white sugar 4 lbs., yeast 1 lb.; ferment; next add 

raisin or cape wine 3 qts., brandy 3 qts., sherry 2 qts., port 2 

qts. ; bung down. The malt may be mashed again for bottle beer. 

American Champagne. 
Good cider (crab apple cider is best) 7 gals., best fourth proof 
brandy 1 qt., genuine champagne wine 5 qts., milkl gal., bi-tar- 
trate of potassa 2 oz. ; mix, and let it stand a short time. Bottle 
while fermenting. An excellent imitation. 

Old Bourbon Whisky. 
To 40 gals, spirits add 5 gals, good bourbon whisky, spirits of 
nitre 2 oz., fusil oil from corn 2 oz. ; put in lqt. alcohol; let it 
stand 4 days. 

British Champagne. 
Loaf sugar 50 lbs., brown sugar (pale) 48 lbs., water (warm) 
45 gals., white tartar 4 oz. ; mix, and at a proper temperature 



44 Recipes and Disclosures. 

add yeast 1 qt., afterwards sweet cider 5 gals., bruised wild 
cherries 14 or 15 oz., pale spirit 1 gal., orris powder 1-2 oz. 
Bottle while fermenting. 

Morella "Wine. 
To each qt. of the expressed juice of the morella or tame cher- 
ries, add3 qts. water and 4 lbs. coarse brown sugar; let them 
ferment, and skim till worked clear ; then draw off, avoiding 
the sediment at the bottom. Bung up, or bottle, which is best 
for all wines, letting the bottles lie always on the side, either 
for wines or beers. 

Blackberry and Strawberry "Wine 

Are made by taking the above wine when made with port 
wine, and for every 7 gals., from 4 to 6 qts. of the fresh fruit 
bruised and strained are added, and let stand four days, till the 
flavor is extracted. When bottling add 3 or 4 broken raisins 
to each bottle. 

Irish "Whisky. 

To 40 gals, proof or neutral spirits add 60 drops creosote dis- 
solved in 1 qt. alcohol, acetic acid 2 oz., loaf sugar 1 lb.; let it 
stand 24 hours. The addition of five gals, of the kind of whisky, 
to be imitated, improves the above. 

Old Eye. 

Take 1-2 peck dried peaches; bake, scorch and roast them in 
a stove, but don't burn; bruise and put them in a woolen 
pointed bag, and leach good common whisky over them twice 
slowly; this is for one barrel; add afterwards 12 drops aqua 
ammonia to each barrel. With age you will have whisky equal 
to Old Bye. 

Monongahela "Whisky. 

Common whisky 36 gals., dried peaches 2 qts., rye burnt and 
ground as coffee 1 qt., cinnamon, cloves and allspice bruised, 1 
oz. each, loaf sugar 5 lbs., sweet spirits of nitre 2 oz. ; put these 
in 4 gals, pure spirits, shake every day for 1 week, then draw 
off and add the whole to the 36 gals, whisky. 

Scotch "Whisky. 
To 40 gals, pure spirit add 5 gals. Scotch or Irish whisky ; 






Brewers 1 Department. 45 

creosote 1-4 oz. dissolved in 1 qt. alcohol, loaf sugar 1 lb. ; let it 
stand ten days. 

Note,— The peculiar flavor of Scotch whisky may be nicely 
imitated by adding a few drops of pure creosote dissolved in a 
little acetic acid, to 2 or 3 gals, of good London gin ; and the 
imitation will be still more perfect if the liquor is kept some 
months before drinking it. 

Drogheda Usquebaugh. 

To 1 gal. brandy add stoned raisins 1 lb.; cinnamon, cloves, 
nutmegs and cardamons, each 1 oz., crushed in a mortar, saffron 
1-2 oz., rind of 1 orange, and sugar candy; shake these well. In 
14 days afterwards fine for use. 

Brandy. 

To 40 gals, pure or neutral spirits add 1 lb. crude tartar dis- 
solved in 1 gal. hot water, acetic ether 1-4 pt. bruised raisins 6 
lbs., tinct. kino 2 oz., sugar 3 lbs., color with sugar coloring. 
Let it stand 14 days and then draw off. 

French Brandy. 
Pure spirit 1 gal., best fresh brandy, or any you wish to imi- 
tate, 1 qt., loaf sugar 2 oz., sweet spirits of nitre 1-2 oz., a few 
drops of tinct. of catechu or oak bark, to roughen the taste, if 
desired, and color to suit. 

Pale Brandy 
Is made the same as by the above receipt, using pale instead 
of the French, and using only 1 oz. tinct. of kino for every 5 
gals. 

London Sherry. 
Chopped raisins 400 lbs., soft water 100 gals., sugar 45 lbs., 
white tartar 1 lb., cider 16 gals. Let them stand together in a 
close vessel one month— stir frequently. Then add of spirit 8 
gals., wild cherries bruised 8 lbs. Let them stand one month 
longer, and fine with isinglass. 

Cherry Brandy. 
To every 10 gals, of brandy made by the receipt for French 
brandy, add 3 qts. of wild black cherries, stones and all bruised, 
crushed sugar 2 lbs. ; let it stand for one week, then draw or 



46 Recipes and Disclosures. 

rack it off" as it is wanted for use. Do not use the bitter almond 
oil in any case, as it is the rankest poison. 

Another. — Good whisky 10 gals., wild black cherries 6 qts. 
well bruised with stones broken, common almonds shelled, 1 lb., 
white sugar, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, well bruised, of 
each 1-2 oz. ; mix, and let them stand 12 days, and draw oft'. 
This with the addition of 2 gals, of brandy, makes most superior 
cherry brandy. 

Blackberry Brandy. 

Take 10 gals, of No. 2 brandy and use 5 qts. nice rich black- 
berries mashed ; macerate the berries in the liquor for 10 days ; 
then strain off, and add 3 oz. sugar to each gallon. If straw- 
berries are used, work the same proportions with only half the 
quantity of sugar. 

Cognac Brandy. 

To every 10 gals, of pure spirits add 2 qts. N. England rum, 
or 1 qt. Jamaica rum, and from 80 to 40 drops of oil cognac cut 
in 1-2 pint of alcohol, and color with burnt sugar to suit. 

English Patent "Wine from Rhubarb. 
To each gal. of juice add 1 gal. soft water, in which 8 lbs. of 
brown sugar has been dissolved, fill a keg or barrel with this 
proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweet- 
ened water as it works off, until clear. Any other vegetable ex- 
tract may be used if this is not liked, then bung down or bottle 
as you please. The stalks will yield 3-4 their weight in juice. 
Stand 1 month and fine with isinglass. This wine will not lead 

to intemperance. 

Rum Shrub. 

Tartaric acid 5 lbs., pale sugar 100 lbs., oil lemon 4 drachms, 
oil orange 5 drachms; put them into a large cask (SO gals.) and 
add water 10 gals. Rummage till the acid and sugar are dis- 
solved, then add rum (proof) 20 gals., water to make up 55 gals, 
in all, coloring 1 qt. or more. Fine with 12 eggs. The addition 
of 12 sliced oranges will improve the flavor. 

Holland Gin. 
To 100 gals, of rectified spirits add (after you have cut the oils 
well) 1 1-2 oz. of the oil of English juniper, 1-2 oz. of angelica 






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JHBenoe, 1-2 oz. of the oil of coriander, and 1-2 oz. oil caraway; 

put this into the rectified spirit and rummage well. This is 

strong gin. To make this up, as it is called by the trade, add 

45 lbs. of loaf sugar, dissolved; then rummage the whole well 

together with 4 oz. roche alum. For finings, add 4 oz. salts of 

tartar. 

Bum. 

Pure spirits 1 gal., 1 qt. of the kind of rum you wish to imi- 
tate, 1-2 oz. oil of carraway — is enough for 6 gals. 

Philadelphia Beer. 
Take 30 gals, water, brown sugar 20 lbs., ginger root bruised 
1-4 lb., cream tartar 1 1-4 lbs., carbonate of soda, 3 oz., oil of 
lemon (cut in a little alcohol) 1 teaspoouful, the whites of 10 eggs 
well beat, hops 2 oz., yeast 1 qt. The ginger root and hops 
should be boiled for 20 or 30 minutes in enough of the water to 
make all milk-warm, then strained into the rest, and the yeast 
added and allowed to work itself clear. Then bottle. 

Ginger Beer. 

Take 5 1-2 gals, water, 3-4 lb. ginger root bruised, tartaric acid 
1-2 oz., white sugar 2 1-2 lbs., whites of 3 eggs w T ell beat, 1 small 
teaspoouful lemon oil, yeast 1 gill, boil the root for 30 minutes 
in 1 gal. of the water, strain off, and put the oil in while hot, 
mix, make over night, in the morning skim and bottle, keeping 
out the sediments. 

Lemon Beer. 

To make 20 gals., boil 6 oz. of ginger root bruised, 1-4 lb. 
cream of tartar, for 20 or 30 minutes in 2 or 3 gals, water ; this 
will be strained into 13 lbs. coffee sugar, on wdiich you have put 
1 oz. oil of lemons, and 6 good lemons all squeezed up together, 
having warm water enough to make the whole 20 gals., just so 
hot that you can hold your hand in it without burning, or about 
90 deg. of heat ; put in 1 1-2 pts. of hop or brewer's yeast, work- 
ed into paste with 5 or 6 oz. flour. Let it work over night, then 
strain and bottle for use. 

Spruce Beer. 

Cold water 10 gals., boiling w T ater 11 gals. Mix in a barrel, add 
molasses 30 lbs., or brown sugar 24 lbs., oil of spruce, or any 



48 Recipes and Disclosures. 

other oil of which you wish the flavor, 1 oz., add 1 pt. yeast and 
ferment; bottle in two or three days. If you wish white spruce 
beer use lump sugar. For ginger flavor, use 17 oz. ginger root 
bruised and a few hops ; boil for 30. minutes in 3 gals, of the wa- 
ter, strain and mix all, let it stand two hours and bottle, using 
yeast of course, as before. 

Hop Beer. 
Hops 6 oz., molasses 5 qts.; boil the hops till the strength is 
out, strain them into a 30 gal. barrel, add the molasses and one 
teacupful of yeast, and fill up with water, shake it well and 
leave the bung out till fermented, which will be in about 24 
hours. Bung up, and it will be fit for use in about three days. 

Molasses Beer. 
Hops 1 oz., water 1 gal. ; boil for ten minutes, strain, add mo- 
lasses 1 lb., and when lukewarm, yeast 1 spoonful. Ferment. 

English Ale. 
For 36 gals., take of pale malt 2 1-2 bushels, sugar just boiled 
to a color 3 lbs., hops 2 1-2 lbs., coriander seeds 1 oz., capsicum 
1-2 dr. Work it two or three days, beating it well up once or 
twice a day; when it begins to fall, cleanse it by adding a hand- 
ful of salt, and 1 oz. of wheat flour. 

Cheap Beer. 
Water 15 gals, ; boil half the water with 1-4 lb. hops. Then 
add to the other half in the keg, and well mix with 1 gal. molas- 
ses and a little yeast. 

To Restore Sour Beer. 
Good hops 1-4 lb., pow T dered chalk 2 lbs. ; put in the hole of 
the cask, and bung close for a few days. For frosted beer, add 
some finings, a few handfuls of flour, and some scalded hops. 
For ropy beer, use a handful or two of flour, the same of hops, 
with a little powdered alum to each barrel ; rummage well. 

Ginger "Wine. 

To 1 qt. 95 per cent, alcohol, add 1 oz. best ginger root (bruis 
ed but not ground), 5 grs. capsicum, and 1 dr. tartaric acid. Let 
it stand one week and filter, and add 1 gal. water in which 1 11 



Brewers' Department. 49 

f crushed sugar has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make 
he color, boil 1-2 oz. cochineal, 3-4 oz. cream tartar, 1-2 oz. sal- 
rat us, and 1-2 oz. alum in 1 pt. water, till you get a bright red 

olor. 

TabU Beer. 

Malt 8 bushels, hops 7 lbs., molasses 25 lbs. ; brew for 10 bbls. 
mailer quantity in proportion. 

To Keep Cider Ssreet and Sweeten Sour Cider. 

To keep cider perfect, take a keg and bore holes in the bottom 

' it; spread a piece of woolen at the bottom of it; then fill 
vdth clean sand closely packed ; draw your cider from a barrel 
ist as fast as it will run through the sand; after this put it in 
lean barrels which have had a piece of cotton or linen cloth 
svo by seven inches, dipped in melted sulphur and burned in- 
kle of them, thereby absorbing the sulphur fumes (this process 

ill also sweeten sour cider) ; then keep it in a cellar or room 
there there is no fire, and add 1-2 lb. white mustard seed to 
ach barrel. If cider is long made or souring when you get it, 
bout 1 qt. of hickory ashes (or a little more of other hard-wood 
shes), stirred into each barrel, will sweeten and clarify it near- 
I equal to rectifying it as above, but if it is not rectified it must 
e racked off to get clear of the pomace, as, with this in it, it 

ill sour. Oil or whisky barrels are best to put cider in, or 1-2 
t. sweet oil to a barrel, or a gallon of whisky to a barrel, or 
oth, may be added with decidedly good effects. Isinglass, 4 oz. 
) each barrel, helps to clarify and settle cider that is not going 
) be rectified. 

To Improve the Flavor of Beer. 

Bruised ginger 1 oz., bruised cloves 1-2 oz., a few scalded 
ops, and a dozen broken coarse biscuits to every 2 barrels, 
lummage well. 

To Restore Flat "Wine. 

Add 4 or 5 gals, of sugar, honey or bruised raisins to every 
30 gals., and bung close ; a little spirit may be added to rough- 
a; take bruised sloes, or powdered catechu, and add to the 
dne in suitable proportions ; or add a small quantity of bruised 
■erries of the mountain ash, to allay inordinate fermentation, 
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50 Recipes and Disclosures. 

and to each barrel 1-2 lb. mustard seed, or rack Into a freshly 
sulphured cask. 

To Improve the Flavor of "Whisky. 
Take 1 gal. whisky, add tea 4 oz., allspice 4 oz., caraway seed 
4 oz., cinnamon 2 oz. ; shake occasionally for a week, and add 1 
pt. to a barrel. Let it stand in a jug. 

Lemonade. 

White sugar 1 lb., tartaric acid 1-4 oz., essence of lemon 30 
drops, water 3 qts. Mix. 

Soda Syrup. 

Loaf or crushed sugar 8 lbs., pure water 1 gal., gum arabic 1 
oz., mix in a brass or copper kettle, boil until the gum is dis- 
solved, then skim and strain through white flannel, after which 
add tartaric acid 5 1-2 oz., dissolved in hot water. To flavor use 
extract of lemon, orange, vanilla, rose, sarsaparilla, strawberry, 
&c, 1-2 oz., or to your taste. If you use juice of lemon and 2 1-2 
lbs. of sugar to a pint, you do not need any tartaric acid with it. 
Now use 2 table spoonfuls of syrup to 3-4 of a tumbler of water, 
and 1-3 teaspoonful of super-carbonate of soda made fine, and 
drink quick. For soda fountains 1 oz. of super-carbonate of 
soda is used to 1 gal. of water. For charged fountains no acids 
are needed in the syrups. 

Lemon and Other Syrups. 

Where you have lemons which are spoiling and drying \i\ 

take out the insides which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, 

and to each pint put 1 1-2 lbs. white sugar; add a little of the 

peel, boil a few minutes, strain and cork for use. This will not 

require any acid. Orange or raspberry syrups are made in the 

same ways, with the addition of 1-4 oz. tartaric acid to each pint 

of juice, and 1-2 teaspoonful of soda to 3-4 of a glass of water 

with 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls of syrup. If water is added it will not 

keep so well. 

Cream Soda, 

Loaf sugar 10 lbs., water 3 gals., warm gradually so a9 not to 
burn, good rich cream 2 qts., extract vanilla 1 1-2 oz., extract 
nutmeg 1-2 oz., tartaric acid 4 oz. ; just bring to a boiling heat, 
or if you cook it any length of time it will crystalize ; use 4 or 



Brewers 1 Department. 51 

i spoonftils of this syrup, instead of 8, as in other syrups ; put 
L-3 teaspoonful of soda to a glass, if used without a fountain. 
Tot charged fountains no acid is used. 

Soda "Water— Double Strong:. 
Water 1 gal., soda 2 oz. ; force into it by means of a pump 
rom six to ten times its bulk of carbonic acid gas, obtained from 
narble. Keep in a cool place, with neck of bottles down. 

Bottled Soda "Water. 

Clear water sweetened, 1 gal., bi-carbonate of soda 10 drs. 
rill the bottles with the fluid ; add to each bottle 28 grs. tartaric 
icid. Cork and wire down immediately. 

Note. — In getting up any of the above soda drinks, it will be 
referable to put £ oz. carbonate of soda into 1 pt, of water and 
hake it well. When you wish to make a glass of soda, pour 
his out and it will foam briskly, instead of using the dry soda 
,s directed. 

Freezing Preparation. 

Common sal ammoniac well pulverized, 1 part, saltpetre 2 
>arts ; mix well together ; then take common soda well pulver- 
zed. To use, take equal quantities of these preparations (which 
aust be kept separate and well covered previous to using), and 
>ut them in the freezing pot ; add of water a proper quantity, 
nd put in the article to be frozen, in a proper vessel ; cover up, 
nd your wants will soon be supplied. For freezing creams or 
vdnes, this cannot be beat. 

Imperial Cream Nectar. 

Part First— -take 1 gal, water, loaf sugar 6 lbs., tartaric acid 6 
z., gum arabicloz. Part Second— 'flour 4 teaspoonfuls, the 
phites of 5 eggs beat finely together, then add 1-2 pt, of water. 
VTien the first part is blood warm, put in the second, boil three 
ainutes, and it is done. Directions.— -3 table spoonfuls of the 
yrup to 2-3 of a glass of water; add 1-3 teaspoonful of carbon- 
te of soda made fine ; stir well, and drink at your leisure. 

Stomach Bitters. 
Gentian root 6 oz., orange peel 10 oz., cinnamon 1 oz., anise 
eed 2 oz., coriander seed 2 oz., cardamon seed 1-2 oz., peruvian 



52 Recipes and Disclosures. 

bark unground, 2 oz. ; bruise all the articles, and add .1 oz. gum 

kino, put in 2 qts. alcohol and 2 qts. pure spirit, or good whisky 

may be used instead of pure spirit ; shake occasionally for ten 

days, and filter through three thicknesses of woolen; then 1-2 

pint of this may be added to a gal. of whisky, more or less, as 

desired. 

Punch. 

"Water 3 gals., tartaric acid 4 oz., or to taste, lump sugar to 
sweeten,brandy 3 pts., rum 3 pts., the peels of 3 lemons grated, 
essence of lemon to flavor ; rub the essence with a little lump 
sugar in a mortar, adding a little of the spirit. 

Peppermint Cordial. 

Good whisky 10 gals., water 10 gals., white sugar 10 lbs., oil 

peppermint 1 oz. in 1 pt. alcohol, 1 lb. flour well worked in with 

the fluid, 1-2 lb. burnt sugar to color. Mix, and let it stand one 

week before using. Other oil hi place of peppermint, and you 

have any flavor desired. 

Portable Lemonade. 

Tartaric acid 1 oz., white sugar 5 lbs., essence of lemon 1-4 oz. 

Powder, and keep dry for use. 1 desert spoonful will make a 

glass of lemonade. 

Milk Punch. 

Yellow rinds of 21 lemons, steep two days in 2 qts. brandy, 
add spirits 3 qts., hot water 2 qts., lemon juice 1 qt., loaf sugar 
4 lbs., boiling milk 2 qts., 2 nutmegs grated; mix, and in two 
hours strain through woolen. 

Stoughton Bitters. 

Gentian 4 oz., orange peel 4 oz., Colombo 4 oz., chamomile 
flowers 4 oz., quassia 4 oz., burnt sugar 1 lb., whisky 2 1-2 gals. 
Mix and let it stand one week. Bottle the clear liquor. 

Sangaree. 

Wine, ale, or porter, 1-3 or 2-3 water, hot or cold according to 
the season of the year, loaf sugar to the taste, with nutmeg. 

Coloring for Liquor. 

Take 1 lb. white sugar, put it into an iron kettle, moisten 

little, let it boil, and burn to a red, black and thick; remove 






Brewers ' Dep artrnent . 5 3 

from the fire and put in a little hot water to keep it from hard- 
ening as it cools. Use this to color any liquors needing color, 
to your taste, or as near the color of the liquor you imitate as 
you can. Tincture kino is a good color, and 1 oz. gum to 1 pt. 
alcohol makes the tincture. 

Silver-Top Drink. 
Water 3 qts., white sugar 4 lbs., oil lemon 1 teaspoonful, white 
of 5 eggs ; beat with 1 table spoonful of flour ; boil, to form a 
syrup ; then divide into equal parts, and to one add 3 oz. tartaric 
acid, to the other 4 oz. carbonate of soda; put in a teaspoonful 
of each of the syrups (more or less, according to the size of the 
glass), to 2-3 of a glass of water; drink quick. 

To Clear and Fine Liquors. 
After all the articles used to prepare any kind of liquors are 
put in, and they do not become perfectly clear, you will draw 
into a barrel which has only one head or bottom in it, with a 
faucet near the bottom, and sift into each barrel from 1 to 3 oz. 
pulverized lime, which will cause every impurity to settle, when 
it can be drawn again and returned to clean barrels or bottles, 
as desired. IVhite Wines are generally fined by isinglass in the 
proportion of 1 1-2 oz. (dissolved in 1 1-2 pints of water, and 
thinned with some of the wine) to the hogshead. Bed Wines 
are generally fined with the whites of eggs in the proportion of 
12 to 18 to each pipe ; they must be well beaten to a froth with 
about 1 pt. of water, and afterwards mixed with a little of the 
wine before adding to the liquor, Rummage well, 



54 Mecipes and Disclosures 



Farmers' and Fruit Growers' Detriment. 



Eules for the Management of Cows. 
To determine which cows are best for keeping, try their milk 
separately, and weigh their butter — for sometimes a cow may j 
give much milk and little butter, and vice versa. Cows should I 
run dry four or five weeks before calving—if milked closely ' 
towards calving, the calves will be poorer. A cow newly come •■ 
in should not drink cold water in cold weather, but moderately 
warm slop. Calves intended for raising should be taken from i 
the cow within a few days, and they will be less liable to suck ; 
when old. Feed them first with new milk for a time, then skim i 
milk, then sour milk, taking care that all the changes are gradu- - 
al, by adding only a portion at first; add gradually a little meal. .1 
Calves well fed and taken care of, with a quart more of meal i 
daily in winter, will be double the size at two years they would 
have attained by common treatment. Heifers thus treated may 
come in at two years old, and will be better than neglected ani- 
mals at three, and one year of feeding saved. Hearty eaters are 
desirable for cows, and they may usually be selected while 
calves. A dainty calf will be a dainty cow. Heifers should be 
accustomed to be freely handled before calving, and drawing 
the teats. They will then not be difficult to milk. Begin grad- 
ually, and never startle them. In milking cows, divide the 
time as nearly as practicable between morning and evening, 
especially at time of early grass, that the udder may not suffer. 
Persons who milk should keep the nails cut short— animals are 
sometimes hurt with sharp nails, and are unjustly charged with 
restlessness. Old cows should be fatted at fifteen years. The 
dairyman, therefore, who has fifteen cows, should raise a heifer 



For Farmers mid Fruit Growers. 55 

calf every year to supply the vacancy— if the herd are thirty 
cows, he should raise two calves, &c. Heifers dried up too early 
after calving, will always run dry about the same time in after 
years— therefore be careful to milk closely after the first year, 
until about three or four weeks before calving, if possible. 
Spring cows should come in while they are yet fed on hay, and 
before they are turned to grass, which will be more likely to 
prevent caked bags and milk fever. 

Hogs in Apple Orchards. 
It is said by those farmers who have practiced turning hogs 
into their apple orchards, that the fruit grown the second year 
and after, is much larger and fairer than when no hogs are al- 
lowed to run in the orchards. The secret of the matter is this : 
The apples that fall to the ground contain worms, and being 
speedily devoured, the worms have no chance to deposit their 
eggs for a new progeny of insects to infest the trees the next 
season. There is reason in this, and it should be tried. 

Scab in Sheep. 

Take 1 lb. mercurial ointment, and 3 lbs. fresh lard, well mix- 
ed together. Turn the sheep upon its back and annoint the 
bare spot under each leg, and also around each place where the 
"scab" has appeared. Keep the subject from the weather a few 
days. 

How to Save Your Cherries from Birds. 

Make some cats out of old rags. Be sure to make the eyes 
out of large yellow beads or bright brass buttons, and the birds 
will not come near, when one of these cats are perched in the 
tree. 

Removing Bust from Saws. 

Procure at some drug store, a piece of pumice stone as large 
as a hen's egg, grind one side fiat on a grindstone, then scour off 
the rust with the pumice stone and soapsuds. Cover the sur- 
face with lard, in which there is no salt. 

Care of Steel Plows. 
"Wash them clean, and as soon as dry, apply a thin coat of any 
kind of vaxnish, or boiled linseed oil, or lard melted with a lit- 



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56 Recipes and Disclosures. 

tie resin, which is good. This will keep the polished surfac< 
from rusting during winter, and will slip off readily as soon a 
the plow runs a few rods in the soil. 

To Measure a Crib of Corn. 
An estimate of the contents of a crib of corn in the ear, maS 
be made as follows : — Level the corn in the crib, measure thi \ 
length, breadth and height which it occupies ; multiply thest 
together, and this product by 0.4 (the decimal 4) ; this will gr\ 
the amount in shelled corn — supposing a bushel of ears wi 
produce but a half bushel of grain. If the above product 
multiplied by 0.8, we will have the actual contents of corn in thi 
ear. Ears which are very productive will yield more than half 
for this, proper allowance is to be made. 

Directions for Setting and. Pruning Grape Vines. 

Directions for Setting. — When vines have been remove* 
from the earth, the roots should be kept- from drying. It is 
good way to wind the roots around the bottom of the stock int< 
a small bunch, and cover them with bog mos£, keeping tht. 
whole well moistened with soft water, until the ground is thor- 
oughly prepared for setting. B 

To Prepare the Ground.— Spade one and one half feet deep;! 
manure with ashes at the rate of one peck to the square yardi 
thoroughly mixed with the soil about ten inches deep. Set tb 1 
roots in their natural position as near as possible. 

For Autumn Pruning. — Soon after the leaves fall, cut tb 
main stalk or canes back to any desired length. Cut the sidj 
canes back to within from one to three buds of the old stalk. 

Summer Pruning.— When two shoots start from the sam< 
bud, break off the smaller one. Break off the small canes o> 
shoots to keep the vines thin, and never allow one cane to rid- 
or shade another until after the middle of August, when the; 
need no more pruning until fall. 

How to Feed Grain. 

It is a poor economy to feed any kind of grain whole or un 
cooked, to any stock except sheep. They do their own corn! 
grinding to advantage, except when being rapidly fattened. I 



For Farmers and Fruit Oroivers. 51 

whole corn be fed, pour boiling water over it and let it stand 
twelre hours ; and if boiled half an hour after that, it is all the 
better. 

Bemedy for Warts on Cows' Teats. 

Warts on cows' teats usually extend no deeper than the skin. 
They should not be removed while the cow gives milk. The 
most effectual way is to take hold of the end of a wart with pli- 
ers, and cut it off with sharp shears. The cut should not be 
•deeper than the skin. This remedy will not hurt a cow as much 
as clipping the skin does sheep, when they are being sheared ; 
or a piece of small wire may be twisted around a large wart suf- 
ficiently tight to obstruct the circulation of the blood, and left 
on till the wart drops off, leaving the surface smooth. 

Feeding Stock. 

Feed little and often is the rule. How little and how often, 
may be asked. So little that the stock will eat up clean what is 
given them morning, noon and night ; and in the long, cold 
"nights of winter, a feed just before bed time, say about nine 
o'clock, is advisable. This we call often ; that is, four times a 
day. Though the quantity should be such as to be eaten up 
clean, yet it should be enough to keep the stock in good, thrifty 
condition. No starving or half feeding them. This does not 
pay. 

Bleeding Hogs. 

Bleeding, is a remedy for most of the diseases to which a hog 
is liable, and one of the best places to bleed a hog, is in the roof 
of the mouth. They should not be bled from the artery inside 
the fore-arm just above the knee, because it is more difficult to 
stop the flow of blood there than in the roof of the mouth. In 
the latter place it is stopped by applying a cloth well saturated 
with cold water. 

Remedy for Bloat in Cattle. 

The term bloat, signifies a gaseous distention of the stomach 
and bowels ; it is occasioned by the evolution of gas from food 
in a state of fermentation, which results from an impaired state 
of the digestive functions. The best remedy for the same is as 
follows :— Dissolve in a quart of warm water, about two ounces 



58 Recipes and Disclosures. 

of hyposulphite of soda; then add two ounces of fluid extrac 
of ginger, and drench the animal with the same ; give enema 
of soap-suds about every twenty minutes, or until the aninu 
passes flatus from the rectum, when immediate relief is the rei 
suit. Every farmer should keep a supply of the hyposulphiti 1 
of soda on hand ; it is a valuable medicine for flatulency or win 
dy distension in all its forms, and combined with a small quar 
tity of ginger and golden seal, it makes an efficient remedy fo' 
colic occurring in horses. 



Dry Hay for Cows in Summer. 

Cows sometimes get a surfeit of grass, especially in wet, ware 
weather, when the grass is succulent and rich. This feed dis 
tends the bowels uncomfortably. An armful of dry hay once : 
day, will serve to absorb some of this moisture, and benefit th 
cow in several respects. 

Scraping Fruit Trees. 

Scrape dead bark from trunks and large branches of trees 
in dry weather wash with this compound : boil down in an iro 
vessel, 1 lb. of sal-soda and dissolve in 1 gal. of rain water. Twj 
applications a year of this will keep trees clean and free frou 
borers. 

Grafting Fruit Trees. 

An important discovery has been made in regard o multiply 
ing choice fruit trees. Instead of making use of a graft, a slil 
is taken from an apple-tree, and planted in a potato, so that 
couple of inches of the slip remain visible. It soon takes roov 
developes itself, and finally becomes a handsome tree, bearin 
fine fruit. This method was first adopted by a French gai 
dener. 

How to Make a Ewe Own a Strange Lamb. 

When you find an ewe with a dead lamb, bleating piteousl 
and mourning over it, if you wish her to adopt another, catc 
the ewe, milk her own milk upon the lamb; then, removing th 
dead one out of her sight, step back out of the way and witnes 
the joy of the mother at the supposed restoration of he 1 
offspring. 






For Farmers and Fruit Gh'owers. 59 

How to Prevent Bugs from Eatina: Cucumber, Squash, or 

Other Vines. 

Wet feathers with Spirits of Turpentine and stick two or 

three in each hill. It will be necessary to repeat this after each 

rain. 

To Make Kope Pliable. 

Considerable difficulty is sometimes experienced in handling 
new rope on account of stiffness. This is especially the case 
when it is wanted for halters and cattle ties. Every farmer is 
aware how inconvenient a new, stiff rope halter is to put on 
and tie up a horse with ; new ropes are frequently unsafe for 
tying cattle with for the reason that they are not pliable enough 
to knot securely. All this can be remedied, and new rope made 
as pliable and soft at once as after a year's constant use, by 
simply boiling it for two hours in water. Then hang it in a 
warm room and let it dry thoroughly. It retains its stiffness 
until dry, when it becomes perfectly pliable. 

How to Kill Lice on Cattle. 

A writer recommends a mixture of lard and kerosene oil — a 
little more lard than oil — well mixed and thoroughly rubbed 
into the hair once or twice, as a complete cure for lice on cattle. 
It is worth the trial. 

To Resuscitate Chilled Lambs. 

Fill a bucket or other convenient vessel with lukewarm water, 
and immerse the lamb, holding it by the head; care being taken 
to keep the nose above the water. Keep it in until it begins to 
struggle, then take it out and wipe dry. By this time the lamb 
will usually be able to stand without assistance, when it can be 
carried to its dam. Take care and not let it get chilled again ; 
It will be more difficult to restore the circulation. 
Manure for Sandy Soil. 

Muck composted with lime or ashes is one of the best manures 
to use upon a sandy soil. 

Cheap Paint for Barns. 

An excellent and cheap paint for rough wood-work is made of 
6 lbs. of melted pitch, 1 pt. of linseed oil, and 1 lb. of brickdust, 
or yellow ochre. 



00 Recipes arid Disclosures. 

Feeding Poultry. 
The cheapest and most advantageous food to use for fattenin 
every description of poultry, is ground oats. These must nc 
be confounded with oat meal, or with ordinary ground oats 1 
The whole of the grain is ground to a fine powder; nothing ( ! 
any kind is taken from it. "When properly ground, one bunl 
of the meal will more effectually fatten poultry, than a bum 
and a half of any other meal. The greatest point in fattenin 
poultry, is to feed at day-break. 

Sows Lying on Their Pigs. 

All danger from sows lying on their young, can be obviatej 
by simply fastening poles on the- sides of the pen, say a fod 
from the sides and a foot from the floor. The sow rarely, [ 
ever, lies on her young; she crushes them against the sides If 
the pen. The poles, by keeping the sow a foot or so from tt 
sides, prevent all danger. It is a simple matter. Any one wlr 
can cut down a pole in the woods, and knows how to use a sa^ 
and hammer, can spike them together and to the sides of tt* 
pen, and the thing is done. 

To Preserve Potatoes Until Spring. 

Put a quantity of powdered charcoal in the bottom of a potat 
bin; it will preserve their flavor, and prevent the sprouts fro 
shooting out so early as they otherwise would. 

Garget in Cows. 
Garget, or " sore udder" in cows, is the cause of much incor 
venience and loss to the dairyman, which might be guardel 
against by a little timely precaution. The disease is caused I 
the sudden distension of the udder by a copious secretion 
milk immediately before, or shortly after parturition, and gei 
orally commences with a sore teat. The uneasiness and irrit ■ 
bility of the cow, when the teat is touched, makes it difficult i' 
remove the milk, and the vessels become choked with it so th:' 
they swell and in some cases burst. Carelessness in miliar 
sometimes produces garget, on account of a portion of the milj 
being left in the udder at each milking. A little care and attei. 
tion often save a great deal of trouble and expense. If the u< 



For Farmers and Fruit Growers. 61 

r and teats appear much distended, the cow should be milked 
few days before calving, in as quiet and gentle a manner as 
)gsible. If this precaution has not been taken, and the pre- 
monitory symptoms of inflammation have appeared, the best 
ay to manage after parturition is to put the calf to the cow, 
lid allow it to knock the udder about until it becomes limber 
,id free from lumps. In cases where the cow has been neglect- 
il until the teat and udder have become so sore that she will not 
3rmit the calf to suck her, and refuses to eat, bleeding must be 
^sorted to, a dose of physic administered, and the udder fo- 
lented two or three times a day, the milk being drawn off 
tirefully. Youatt prescribes an ointment which has been 
,»und very useful in cases of inflammation of the udder ; it is 
>mposed of the following ingredients : 1 oz. of camphor, 1 
[saspoonful of spirits of wine, 1 oz. of mercurial ointment, and 
,2 lb. of elder ointment. This mixture should be applied after 
rery milking, the udder being we}} fomented with warm 
ater, and the remains of the ointment washed off before the 
ext milking. A New York farmer says that a tablespoonful 
I saltpetre given to a cow once a day, for three or four days, is 
a effectual remedy for the garget. It can be given in a wash if 
le cow is hearty, or in a dough pill. Another, which has never 
[een known to fail in a single instance, is this : Give each cow a 
saping table spoonful of sulphur three or four weeks in succes- 
on in the winter, while they are dry, or it may, in case of 
ecessity, be given at any other time. 

Time to Cut Post and Rail Timber. 
Post and rail timber should be cut before the sap begins to 
irculate. 
How to Prevent Swine from. Eating Their own Young. 

Raw roots fed daily before farrowing, is one of the surest prev- 
entatives of constipation, and consequently of that depraved 
:ate of the stomach and bowels which leads a sow to eat her 

Wn young. 

Ages of Cattle. 

The age of the ox or cow is told chiefly by the teeth, and less 
erfectly by the horns. The temporary teeth are in part through 



62 Recipes and Disclosures. 

at birth, and all the incisors are through in twenty days ; the 
first, second and third pairs oi temporary molars are through 
in thirty days ; the teeth have grown large enough to touch • 
each other by the sixth month, they gradually wear and fall in 
eighteen months ; the fourth permanent molars are through at 
the fourth month ; the fifth at the fifteenth ; the sixth at two- 
years. The temporary teeth begin to fall at twenty-one months, 
and are entirely replaced by the thirty-ninth to the forty-fifth 
month. The development is quite complete at from five to six 
years. At that time, the border of the incisors has been worn 
away a little below the level of the grinders. At six years, the 
first grinders are beginning to wear, and are on a level with the 
incisors. At eight years, the wear of the first grinders is very 
apparent. At ten or eleven years, used surfaces of the teeth 
begin to bear a square mark, surrounded by a white line ; and 
this is perceived on all the teeth by the twelfth year ; between 
the twelfth and the fourteenth year, this mark takes a round 
form. The rings on the horns are less useful as guides. At ten 
or twelve months the first ring appears ; at twenty months to 
two years the second ; at thirty to thirty-two months the third ; 
at forty to forty-six months thg fourth; at fifty-four to sixty 
months the fifth ring, and so on. But, at the fifth year, the 
tbree first rings are indistinguishable, and at the eighth year all 
the rings ; besides, the dealers file the horns. 

Age of Sheep. 
In sheep, the temporary teeth begin to appear in the first 
week, and fill the mouth at three months ; they are gradually 
worn, and fall at about fifteen or eighteen months. The fourth 
permanent grinders appear at three months, and the fifth pair 
at twenty to twenty-seven months. A common rule is "two 
broad teeth every year." The wear of the teeth begins to be 
marked at about six years. 

Age of Swine. 
The age of the pig is known up to three years by the teeth; 
after that there is no certainty. The temporary teeth are com- 
plete in three or four months ; about the sixth month the pre- 
molars between the tusks and the first pair of molars appear ; in 



For Farmers and Fruit Growers. 63 

x or ten months the tusk9 and posterior incisors are replaced ; 
twelve months to two years the other incisors ; the fourth 
gfmanent molars appear at six months ; the fifth pair at ten 
onths ; and the sixth and last at eighteen months. 

:>rn House— How to Build so as to Keep out Rats and 
Mice. 

This house may be built any desired size, but a very conven- 
at size for a small farm is 14 x 18 feet, with a corn crib on one 
le with windows on the outside to throw in corn from the 
agon, a tier of bins on the opposite side, and a floor through 
e centre. Get your timber out large ; have your posts run 
3m the plate to the ground, where they will set on a stone. 
*ame your sills into the posts twenty or twenty-five inches 
3m the ground ; taper your posts from the sill to the bottom, 
iving it about four inches at the foot; then cover the post up 

the sill with tin; it being more than up-hill work, no mouse 
n climb it. Old worn out stove boilers will do to cover with, 
de up with good house siding, except on the crib side. Side 
) as usual, only putting a piece of board the width of your 
ling wedge-shaped, under each siding on every stud. Make 

open floor to admit air at the bottom, and your corn is safe, 
iiousands of bushels of grain are destroyed annually, by rats 
d mice alone. Therefore why not build houses similar to the 
ove, and save all this unnecessary waste. 

3st Time to Set Cuttings of Currants, Gooseberries, &o. 
Cuttings of currants, gooseberries, &c, made in the fall, form 
iallus, and are ready to strike root and grow as soon as spring 
ens. When not convenient to plant them in the fall, cut, and 
ip one-third of their length in mud, placed in a cool cellar, and 
]pt moist by an occasional sprinkling of water. 

To Keep "Worms Out of Dried Fruit. 
jtt is said that a small quantity of sassafras bark mixed with 
Jied fruit will keep it free from worms for years. The remedy 
j easily obtained in any locality, and is well worthy an ex- 
jriment, as it will not injure the fruit in any manner, if it does 
1 1 prevent the nuisance. 



64 Recipes and Disclosures. 

How to Take Bees' Honey Without Destroying the Bees. 

The following easy method of taking the honey without des- 
troying the bees, is generally practiced in France : — in the dusk 
of the evening, when the bees are quietly lodged, approach the 
hive, and turn it gently over. Having steadily placed it in a 
small pit previously dug to receive it, with its bottom upwards, 
cover it with a clean new hive, which has been properly pre- 
pared, with a few sticks across the inside of it, and rubbed with 
aromatic herbs. Having carefully adjusted the mouth of each 
hive to the other, so that no aperture remains between them, 
take a small stick and beat gently round the sides of the lower 
hive for about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, in which 
time the bees will leave their cells in the lower hive, ascend, 
and adhere to the upper one. Then gently lift the new hive, 
with all its little tenants, and place it in on the stand from 
which the other hive was taken. This should be done sometime 
in the week preceding midsummer day, that the bees may have 
time, before the summer flowers are faded, to lay in anew stock 
of honey, which they will not fail to do for their subsistence 
through the winter. 

How to Feed Bees. 

With the aid of feeding it is perfectly easy to bring any hive 
of bees through the winter ; but to ensure the success of a very 
light stock, it is essential to keep it also very warm and dry. — 
Feeding is absolutely necessary when more honey has been tak- 
en than the hive can afford, by means of small hives or glasses. 
Such stocks as are intended to be kept through the winter 
should weigh twenty pounds or upwards at the end of Septem- 
ber; but casts and late swarms seldom attain this weight, un- 
less two or more should have been united. The composition 
for feeding consists of moist sugar and new beer, the propor- 
tion of one pound of sugar to one pint of beer, simmered to 
the consistency of treacle : to be inserted into the hives by 
means of small troughs, at night, and removed the next morn- 
ing early. Should a hive be very poor and weak, it is better to 
feed in larger quantities each time. 



For Farmers and Fruit Growers. 65 

How to Fatten Geese. 
An experiment has been tried of feeding geese with turnips 
cut in small pieces like dice, but not so large, and put into a 
trough of water; with this food alone the effect was that six 
geese, each when lean weighing only nine pounds, actually 
gained twenty pounds each in about three weeks' fattening. 

How to Feed Hens so as to Make them Lay. 
Corn, before being given to fowls, should always be crushed 
and soaked in water. The food will thus go further, and it will 
help digestion. Old bones should be burnt and powdered as fine 
as sump and kept before them. Hens fed thus have been known 
to lay the whole of the winter months. In a time of scarcity, 
and when the food of man is dear, such experiments as pro- 
posed are well worth making, and every farmer ought to give 
it a trial, as it costs nothing. 

Remedy for Lambkill Poison. 
A farmer who has saved many lambs by it gives the following 
recipe : — Bruise the boughs of white ash, and boil in water 
snough to cover them ; give a few spoonfuls at a time, once in 
two hours, and a cure will be effected if giveu within twenty- 
four hours after the poison has been taken into the stomach. 

Nest Eggs. 
To have a supply of these, indistructable to heat or cold, just 
empty some eggs, as you need them, through as small an aper- 
ture as possible ; mix up with water to the consistency of cream, 
some pulverized plaster; fill the shells brimming full; when 
they have hardened, if you choose to peel them you will find 
them perfect, and if you think your Bramas will be fastidious 
jibout color, a little annatto mixed in will render the illusion 
perfect. 

"When to Cut and How to Preserve Grafts. 
", Grafts can be cut any time from the first of February till the 
sap begins to start, when the thermometer is above thirty 
■degrees. When cut place them in a dry cellar, and cover them 
with sand. Some wrap them in a cloth before covering, the 
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66 Recipes and Disclosures 

cloth serving to keep the sand from adhering to the grafts, and 
thus prevents the necessity of washing them when required for 
use. In the month of February grafts can be sent a long dis- 
tance by mail, without other covering than paper. If dry when 
received, burying them in sand in the cellar will soon restore 
them. 

How to Condense Milk. 

riace 2 qts. of new milk in a vessel over a slow fire, stir it to 
prevent burning until it is about the thickness of cream, add 
one pound of sugar, a little at a time, stirring constantly until 
it becomes thick and stiff, then spread on plates and dry in the | [ 
oven or the sun, and powder it with a knife or spoon when itij 
is ready for use and serves for both milk and sugar whemi; 
dissolved in coffee or tea. Let our dairy-women try it. 

Churning Butter. 
In churning butter, if small granules of butter appear which : 
do not "gather," throw in a lump of butter and it will form a 
nucleus and the butter will "come." Thick cream should be 
thinned with two or three quarts of new milk, just before 
churning, which will have a tendency to improve the quality of I 
the butter and at the same time diminish the labor one-half. 

To Prevent the Feet of Horses from Balling with Snow. 
If the frog in the hoofs of horses and the fetlock be cleaned^ 
and well rubbed with soft soap, previous to their going out iu 
snowy weather, it will effectually prevent their falling from 
Avhat is termed balling with snow. A number of accidents! 
might be prevented by this simple precaution. 

Treatment of Horses and Cattle. 
The experiment has often been tried of the benefit derived 
to horses from being well combed and kept clean. It has been 
found that a horse neglected as to cleanliness will not be so well 
conditioned, either for fatness or strength, though he gets an] 
abundance of corn ; at least it is certain that it would be worth j 
trying. This everybody knows, that the most neglected of the 
horse race are kept cleaner than the cleanest of the horned 
c attic, particularly those shut up in bouses. 



For Fanners and Fruit Growers. 67 

K I hate a hint to give," says a contemporary writer; "as 
1 the cost can be nothing and the advantage may be great; I read 
' in a description of Norway, that when the cows drink at the 

hot springs they give more milk than those that drink cold 
- water. Cows drink so much at a time that there is no doubt, 

When the water is nearly at freezing, they must feel sensibly 

cooled all over, which will naturally affect their produce of milk. 

I would therefore propose the experiment of warming the 

water for milch cows in cold weather. 

, To Preserve Fruits or Flowers. 

Mix one pound of nitre with two pounds of sal ammoniac 
and three pounds of clean common sand. In dry weather take 
fruit of any sort not fully ripe, allowing the stalks to remain, 
and put them, one by one into an opeu glass, till it is quite full; 
cover the glass with oiled cloth closely tied down; put the 
glass three or four inches into the earth in a dry cellar, and 
surround it on all sides, to the depth of three or four inches, 
with the above mixture. This method will preserve the fruit 
quite fresh all the year round. 

To Prevent the Dropping off of Grapes. 
Make a circular incision in the wood, cutting a ring of bark 
about the breadth of the twelfth of an inch. The wood acquires 
greater size about the incision, and the operation accelerates the 
maturity of the wood, and that of the fruit likewise. The in- 
cision should not be made too deep and further than the bark, or 
it will spoil both the wood and the fruit. 



68 Recipes and Disclosures. 



Farriers' Department. 



How to Catch Horses. 

Horses ought to be trained when colts to be easily caught. — 
When a horse is incorrigibly bad to catch, never turn him loose < 
without a halter or headstall on. Then always carry some oats, 
roots, meal, salt, sugar, or something else that he likes, and, af- 
ter he has tasted a few times, take hold gently of the halter. — 
Whipping or any harshness immediately after he is caught 
makes a bad habit worse ; but, even if hard to catch, reward 
him when caught. 

To Prevent Horses Being Teased by Flies. 

Boil three handfuls of walnut leaves or pennyroyal, in 3 qts. of 
water ; sponge the horse (before going out of the stable) be- 
tween and upon the ears, neck and flanks. 

To Prevent Bots. 
Mix a little wood ashes with the horses' drink daily. This 
will effectually preserve horses against the bots. 

Liniment for Galled Backs of Horses. 
White lead moistened with milk. When milk cannot be pro- 
cured, oil may be substituted. One or two ounces will last two 
months or more. 

Remedy for Cracked Hoofs. 

Take a piece of copper four inches long and two inches wide, 

and drill eight holes, four in each end, so as not to interfere with 

the crack, and screw it fast to the hoof, crossways of the crack; 

then take a hot iron with a sharp edge and burn the crack at the 






Farrier^ Department. 69 

edge of the hair, till it goes through to the quick. After this let 
the horse run on pasture, and it will begin to heal up in a few 
weeks. This remedy I have tried, and it did the work complete, 
and I worked the horse all the time. Care should be taken to 
close the crack tight before the plate is fastened on. So says a 
practical farmer. 

Remedy for Strains in Horses. 

Take whiskey, 1-2 pt. ; camphor, 1 oz. ; sharp vinegar, 1 pt. ; 
mix. Bathe the parts affected. 

■ Another.— Take opodeldoc, warm it, and rub the strained 
part two or three times a day. 

How to Make a Baulky Horse Start Off. 

A baulky horse will start right off if you put a handful of dirt 
or gravel from the road into his mouth. The philosophy of the 
thing is, it gives him something else to think about. 

Another. — Take oil of rhodium and ammonia equal parts ; mix 
and rub a little on their nose and they will start right. 

How to Remove a Horse from a Burning Barn. 
Horses may generally be removed from a burning barn, with- 
out difficulty, if their heads are covered with a cloth or blanket. 
It is sometimes necessary to apply a twist to their upper lip 
before they will move. 

How to Make Oats and Corn Doubly Nutritious to Horses. 

Instead of feeding the oats whole, break them in a mill, and the 
same quantity will prove doubly nutritious. If corn is to be fed 
boil it, and give the horses the corn and liquor in which it has 
^been boiled; the result will be, that instead of six bushels in a 
crude state, three bushels so prepared will be found to answer, 
and to keep the animals in superior vigor and condition. The 
above is worthy the attention of those owning horses. 
Physic Ball for Horses. 

Cape aloes from 6 to 10 drs., castile soap 1 dr., spirits of wine 
1 dr., syrup to form the ball. If mercurial ointment be wanted 
add from 1-2 to 1 dr. of calomel. Previous to physicing ahorse 
and during its operation, he should be fed on bran mashes, al- 



70 Recipes and Disclosures. 

lowed plenty of chilled water, and have exercise. Physic is 
always useful ; it is necessary to be administered in almost every 
disease. It improves digestion and gives strength to the lacteal* 
by cleansing the intestines and unloading the liver, and, if the 
animal is afterwards properly fed, Avill improve his strength and 
condition in a remarkable degree. Physic, except in urgent 
cases, should be given in the morning and on an empty stomach.: 1 
and if required to be repeated, a week should intervene between 
each dose. Before giving a horse a ball,, see that it is not too 
hard or too large. 

Points of a G-ood Horse. 
The Ar;>bs express their ideas of the form of a good hprse, 
very laconically, when they say he should have — Four Things 
Large:— The forehead, chest, croup and limbs. Foicr Tilings 
Long: — The neck and shoulders, upper limbs, body and haun-i 
ches. Four Things Slwrt: — The loins, pasterns, ears and tail. 

Cold. 
Take a quart of blood from the neck, then give warm mashes 
with a scruple of nitre in them. Purge with castor and Unseed 
oil, and keep the stable warm. 

Solon's Horse Liniment, the Best in Use. 

Rosin 4 oz., beeswax 4 oz., lard 9 oz., honey 2 oz. ; mix slow- 
ly and gently bring to a lw>il; then add slowly less than 1 pt. oli 
spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time ; then remove and stir; 
till cool. Unsurpassed for horseflesh, cracked hoofs, human 
flesh, &c. 

Ringbone and Spavin Cure. 

Sweet oil 4 oz., spirits of turpentine 2 oz., oil of stone 1-2 oz. ;.j 
mix, and apply three times a day. If the horse is over fouu 
years old, you will tit a bar of lead just above it, wiring the; 
ends so that it will wear constantly upon the enlargement, andj 
the two together will cure nine cases oat of ten in six weeks. 

Never-failing Remedy for Bots in Horses. 

First give the horse 2 (its. of new milk and 1 qt. of molasses ; 

15 minutes afterwards give 2 qts. of very strong sage tea; m 



Farriers' Department. 11 

minutes after the tea give 3 pts. (or enough to operate as physic) 
of curriers' oil. The molasses and milk cause the bots to let 
go their hold, the tea puckers them up, and the oil carries them 
completely away. Cure certain in the worst cases. 

How to Tame the "Wildest Horses. 
Take fine grated horse castor, oils of rhodium and cummin ; 
keep these in separate bottles well corked; put some of the oil 
of cummin on your hand and approach the horse on the windy 
side, lie will then move towards you ; then rub some of the 
eummiu on his nose ; give him a little of the castor on anything 
he likes, and get 8 or 10 drops of the oil of rhodium on his 
tongue ; you can then get him to do anything you like. Be 
kind and attentive to the animal and your control is certain. 

Colic Cured in Ten Minutes. 
Bleed freely at the horse's mouth, then take 1-2 lb. raw cotton 
and wrap it around a coal of fire so as to exclude the air; when 
it begins to smoke, hold it under his nose till he becomes easy. 
To cure distemper, take 1 1-4 gals, blood from the neck vein, 
then adminster sassafras oil 1 1-2 oz. Cure speedy and certain. 

To Cure Founder in Twenty-four Hours. 
Boil or steam stout oat straw for half an hour; then wrap it 
round the horse's leg while quite hot ; cover up with wet woolen 
rags to keep in the steam ; in six hours renew the application, 
take 1 gal. of blood from the neck vein, and give 1 qt. of linseed 
oil. He may be worked next day. 

Cure for Staggers in Horses. 
Give a mess, twice a week, composed of bran 1 gal., sulphur 

1 table spoonful, saltpetre 1 spoonful, boiling sassafras tea 1 qt., 
assaftctida 1 1-8 oz. Keep the horse from cold water for half a 
lay afterwards. 

Broken-Winded Horses. 
This is an incurable disease; all that can be done is to relieve 
the animal for a time so as to enable him to perform a day's 
work. To do this make the following Paste-ball : — Assafcetida, 

2 oz. : powdered squills, 2 drs. ; linseed powder, 1 oz. ; honey, as 



72 Recipes and Disclosures 

much as will make the mess. Divide it into four halls, and giv 
one morning and evening. Much benefit may result from bleec 
ing in this disorder at an early period of the complaint. Hi 
food should be carrots or turnips. The hay, oats, or whateve 
is given should be in small quantities at a time, and alway 
sprinkled with clean, soft water. 

Remedy for Scratches. 
Two ounces castile soap, 2 oz. rosin, 1 oz. lard, 2 oz. coppera? 
and white of an egg; stew it for fifteen minutes and it is fit fo 
use. Bind it on the part for twenty-four hours, then wash i 
well and the cure is performed. 

Soap Liniment for Sprains and Swellings. 
Take 1-2 gal. alcohol, 1 pt. soft soap, 4 oz. spirits camphor, ami 
4 oz. spirits turpentine ; stir all over a slow fire. This is cheap; 
and good. 

Hoof Bound. 
Have the horse shod with shoes narrow at the heel. Havn 
them made with corks one inch long, flaring out from the bottoni 
to the top. Use Solon's Horse Liniment every third day. 

How to Tell a Horse's Age. 
At two years old, Colt sheds two centre nippers. At thre« 
years old, Colt sheds the adjoining teeth. At four years old, CoL 
sheds outer, or corner teeth. At five years old, bridle tooth i 
up and six year cups leave two centre teeth below. At sever 
years old, cups leave adjoining teeth. At eight years old, cup. 
leave outer, or corner teeth. At nine years old, cups leave twf 
centre nippers. At ten years old, cups leave adjoining teeth.— 
At eleven years old, cups leave corner upper teeth. Attwelvi 
years and past, groove in inside of bridle tooth disappears hi' 
horse. Mares very seldom have them. When they do, no cri : 
terion to be guided by. 



For Hunters and Trappers. 73 



Hunters 1 and Tracers' Department. 



The Hunters' Secret. 

The following secret applies to all animals, as every animal is 
attracted by the peculiar odor in a greater or less degree ; but it 
is best adapted to land animals, such as Foxes, Minks, Sables, 
Martins, Wolves, Bears, Wild Cats, &c, &c. 

Take one half pound strained honey, one quarter drachm 
musk, three drachms oil of lavender, and four pounds of tallow, 
mix the whole thoroughly together, and make it into forty pills, 
or balls, and place one of these pills under the pan of each trap 
when setting it. 

The above preparation will most wonderfully attract all kinds 
of animals, and trappers and others who use it will be sure of 
success. 

To Catch Foxes. 

Take oil of amber, and beaver's oil, each equal parts, and rub 
over the trap before setting it. Set in the usual way. 

To Catch Muskrat. 

In the female muskrat near the vagina, is a small bag which 
holds from 30 to 40 drops. Now all the trapper has to do, is to 
procure a few female musk rats and squeeze the contents of the 
bag into a vial. Now when in quest of muskrats, sprinkle a few 
drops of the liquid on the bushes over and around the trap. 
This will attract the male muskrats in large numbers, and if the 
traps are properly arranged, large numbers of them may be 
taken. 

***In trapping Muskrats, steel traps should be used, and they 



74 Recipes and Disclosures 

should be set in the paths and runs of the animals, where they 
come upon the banks, and in every case the trap should be set 
under the water, and carefully concealed ; and care should be 
taken that it has sufficient length of chain to enable the animals 
to reach the water after being caught, otherwise they are liable 
to escape by tearing or gnawing off their legs. 

To Catch Mink. 
Take oil of amber, and beaver's oil, and rub over the trap. 
Bait with fish or birds. 

To Preserve Living Fish. 
Stop up their mouths with bread steeped in brandy ; pour a 
little brandy into them, pack them in clean straw, and they can 
be restored to life in fifteen days afterward by immersing in 
water about four hours. 

Secret Art of Catching Fish. 
Put the oil of rhodium on the bait, when fishing with a hook, 
and you will always succeed. 

To Catch Fish. 
Take the juice of smallage or lovage, and mix with any kind I 
of bait. As long as there remain any kind of fish within many 
yards of your hook, you will find yourself busy pulling them i 
out. 

To Catch Abundance of Eels, Fish, &c. 

Get over the water after dark, with a light and a dead fish 

that has been smeared with the juice of stinking glawdin— the 

fish Avill gather round you in large quantities, and can easily be 

scooped up. 

Chinese Art of Catching Fish. 

Take Cocculus Indicus, pulverize, and mix with dough, then 
scatter it broad-cast over the water as you would sow seed. 
The fish will seize it with great avidity, and will instantly 
become so intoxicated that they will turn belly up on top of the 
water by dozens, hundreds or thousands, as the case may be. 
All that you now have, to do is to have a boat or other conven- 
ience to gather them up, and as you gather, put them into a tub 
of clean water, and presently they will be as lively and healthy 



For Hunters and Trappers. 15 

as ever. This means of taking fish, and the manner of doing it, 
has heretofore been known to but few. The value of such 
knowledge admits of no question. This manner of taking fish 
does not injure the flesh in the least. 

Best Bait for Trout Fishing. 
The trout, with the exception of the salmon, is the most su- 
perb game-fish in the world. There are several species. In 
nearly all the pure cold-water streams of the Northern, Middle, 
and Eastern States the speckled trout abounds. The best bait, 
in early spring, is the angle worm, but in August and Septem- 
ber the grasshopper is probably the most killing. Of the arti- 
ficial flies the "red hackle'' is usually preferred. 

Pickerel Fishing. 

This savage creature is considered the longest lived of all fresh 
water fish. He inhabits nearly all the lakes and inland waters 
of the Northern and Middle States. For still fishing a live min- 
now is excellent bait, and for trolling a small " shiner," or a chub 
should be used. In the winter, when the lakes and ponds are 
frozen, by making an opening in the ice very fine pickerel are 
frequently taken with live minnows. For this purpose the bait 
should be obtained in the summer or fall and kept alive in 
spring-water. 

To Catch Birds. 

Steep some wheat in high wines and put it where the birds 
will get it, and they will soon become so intoxicated that you 
can tatch them with your hands. 



76 Recipes and Disclosures 



Honstejers' and CooMng Department. 



Hints to Housekeepers. 

Health is impaired, and even life lost sometimes, by using im 
perfect, unripe, musty or decaying articles of food. The same 
money's worth of a smaller amount of food, is more nutritious 
more healthful, more invigorating than a much larger amount o 
what is of an inferior quality. Therefore get good food ant 
keep it good until used. Remember that. 

Fresh Meats should be kept in a cool place, but not freezing 
or in actual contact with ice. 

Flour and Meal shoud be kept in a cool place with a space o 
an inch or more between the floor and the bottom of the barrel ; 

Sugars. Havana sugar is seldom clean ; hence not so good 
that from Brazil, Porto Rico, and Santa Cruz. Loaf, crushec 
and granulated sugars have more sweetness and go farther thai 
brown. 

Butter for winter use should be made in mid-autumn. 

Lard that is hard and white and from hogs under a year old 
is best. 

Cheese soft between the fingers is richest and best. Keep 
tied in a bag hung in a cool, dry place. Wipe off the mould witl 
a dry cloth. 

liice, large, clean, and fresh-looking is best. 

Sago, small and white called " Pearl," is best. 

Coffee and Tea should be kept in close canisters, and by thei 
selves. Purchase the former green ; roast and grind for eacl 
day's use. 



For Housekeepers. 11 

Apples, Oranges and Lemons keep longest wrapped close in 
paper and kept in a cool, dry place. Thaw frozen apples in cold 
water. 

Bread and Cake should be kept in a dry, cool place, in a 
wooden box, aired in the sun every day or two. 

All strong-odored food should be kept by itself, where it can- 
not scent the house. 

Bar Soap should be piled up with spaces between them in a 
dry cellar, having the air all around it to dry it for months before 
using ; the dryer, the less waste. 

Cranberries covered with water will keep for months in a 

cellar. 

Potatoes spread over a dry floor will not sprout. If they do, 
cut off the sprouts often. If frozen, thaw them in hot water, 
and cook at once. By peeling off the skin after they are cooked, 
the most nutritious and healthful part is saved. The best mealy 
potatoes sink in strong salt water. 

Corned Beef should be put in boiling water, and boiled stead- 
ily for several hours. 

Hominy or Samp should steep in warm water all night, and 
boil all next day in an earthern jar surrounded with water. 

Spices and Peppers should be ground fine, and kept in tin 
cans in a dry place. A good nutmeg bleeds at the puncture of a 
pin. Cayenne pepper is better for all purposes of health than 
black. 

Beans, white, are the cheapest and most nutritious of all 
articles of food in this country. 

Hot Drinks are best at meals ; the less of any fluid the better. 
Anything cold arrests digestion on the instant. 

It is hurtful, and is a wicked waste of food to eat without an 
appetite. 

All meals should be cut up as fine as a pea, especially for 
children. The same amount of stomach power expended on 
such a small amount of food as to be digested perfectly, without 
its being felt to be a labor; namely: without any appreciable 
discomfort in any part of the body, gives more strength and 
vigor to the system, than upon a larger amount, which is felt to 
require any effort, giving nausea fullness, acidity, wind, etc. 



18 Recipes and Disclosures 

Milk, however fresh, pure and rich, if drunk largely at eacr. 
meal, say a glass or two, is generally hurtful to invalids and se-ii 
dentary persons, as it tends to cause fever, constipation and bil- 
liousness. 

Butter and Lard should not be kept in the same apartment 
with Kerosene, as all fats readily absorb and retain odors, anil 
the fine aroma of butter may thus be seriously injured. 

Piclde and Preserve Jars should always be washed in cole 
water, dried thoroughly, and kept in a dry place. If they arcij 
washed in hot water, it cracks their glazed surface, making them 
porous, nnd therefore unfit for use — since one of the great points 
in pickling and preserving is thoroughly to exclude the air. 

Queen of Puddings. 

Into one quart of sweet milk, put one pint of fine bread 
crumbs, butter the size of an egg, the well beaten yolks of five' 
eggs ; sweeten and flavor as for custard ; mix the whole well 
together. While the above is baking beat she whites of the egg? 
to a stiff froth, and add a teacupful of powdered sugar ; pour iti 
over the hot pudding when cooked, return it to the oven and( 
bake to a delicate brown. This is not only delicious, but light! 
and digestible. 

Mince Pie Without Meat. 

Prepare the pie crust and apples the usual way, when seasoned' 
and in the pie pans, fill the top of the apples with custard, prej 
pared the same as for custard pie. Then put on the top crust 
and bake. It is a good imitation and preferable to mince pie. 

Fine Flour Bread Rolls. 
Mix the flour with sufficient cold water to form a batter about 
the same or a trifle stiffer than for fritters, and bake from twenty- 
five to thirty minutes in cast iron bread pans, commencing in I 
quick oven. The pans must be well heated before filling, and; 
the oven must be hot ; a quick heat to expand the air in the 
dough and form a crust at the same time to prevent its escape! 
while the bread is rising, is absolutely indispensable. The hot- 
ter the oven, provided it does not burn the dough when the pro- 
cess of baking begins, the lighter will be the bread, and if it is 



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of the proper temperature, and the batter the right stiffness, the 
bread will be as light as a sponge. Owing to the difference in 
the absorbing properties of different brands of flour, no definate 
rule for the proportions of flour and water can be given, but the 
boper consistency of the batter can be easily ascertained by 
mixing that baked at the same time of different degrees of still- 
ness. Four cup fulls of water to five or six of flour is as near 
the right proportions as can be given. 

NOTE. — There are several patterns of iron pans now being 
introduced, but the French Roll Pan, manufactured by Barstow 
& Co., Providence, It. I., is the best w r e have seen. Tin pans of 
the right size will answer the same purpose. They should be 
two inches square at the top, one and one-half inches at the 
bottom, and one inch deep, joined together by wire for conven- 
ience in handling, with six or twelve in a set. 

"Webster Cake. 
Five cups of flour, three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one 
cup of milk, two eggs, and a teaspoonful of saleratus. Fruit 
and spice to the taste, or without fruit. Bake it about half an 
hour. 

Clay Cake. 
Haifa pound of butter beat very light, a pound of sugar, a 
pound of flour, half a pint of cream, half a nutmeg, a lemon, 
and live eggs. Bake half an hour. 

Indian Cake. 
Take one egg; half a pint of sour milk; a teaspoonful of soda; 
three tablespoonfuls of molasses ; and indian meal to make it 
about thick enough to pour. We think it better by leaving out 
the molasses and adding a spoonful of cream. Try this, and 
you will have a cake fit for the Queen. 

Beet Root Coffee. 

A very good coffee can be made of beet root in the following 

maimer :— Cut dry beet root into small pieces, then gradually 

heat it in a close pan over the fire for about fifteen minutes. ISTow 

introduce a little sweet, fresh butter, and bring it up to the 



80 Recipes and Disclosures 

roasting heat. The butter prevents the evaporation of the sweeN j 
ness and aroma of the beet root, and when fully roasted it I ! 
taken out, ground and used like cotfee. A beverage made of it 
is cheap, and as good for the human system as coffee or chiccory. 1 

Directions for Keeping Preserves. 
Preserves should be kept carefully from the air, and in a very 
dry place. Unless they have a very small proportion of sugar 
a warm place does not hurt, but when not properly boiled — that, 
is, long enough, but not quickly — heat makes them ferment, and 
damp causes them to grow mouldy. They should be looked at 
two or three times in the first two months, and if not likely to 
keep they must be gently boiled again. Apply the white of am 
egg with a suitable brush to a single thickness of white paper, 
with which cover the jars, overlapping the edges an inch or two." 
When dry the whole will become as tight as a drum. Jellies of 
all kinds should be sealed in the same manner. This plan is, 
adopted by most of the French confectioners. 

Breakfast Cake. 

One quart of flour, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, 1 small cup oft 
white sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, put into the flour 
dry, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1 of salt, a piece of butter the sizej 
of an egg. Bake in cups. 

Imitation Apple Pie. 

Six soda biscuits soaked in three cups of cold water, the grated 
rind and juice of three lemons, and sugar to your taste. This^ 
will make three pies. 

Fruit Cake. 

Take 2 1-2 cups dried apples soaked in warm water one-half 
hour, then put them into 2 cups of molasses and simmer them 
two hours. Take 3 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 
cup of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls saleratus, 4 cups flour, add your 
fruit and spice to your taste. 

How to Boil Potatoes and have them Mealy. 

Have the potatoes of a size, do not put them into the pot until 

the water boils. When done pour off the water and remove 



For Housekeepers, 81 

the cover until all the steam is gone ; then scatter in half a tea- 
cupful of salt and cover the pot with a towel. By adopting this 
plan watery potatoes will be mealy. 

Rhubarb Dumplings. 
Peal the Rhubarb, cut it fine and make it into dumplings as 
you would any other fruit. 

Soft Gingerbread. 
To one cup of molasses, add one cup of butter, one cup of 
sugar, one cup of sour or butter-milk, one-half ounce of ginger, 
two pounds of flour, beat well together, mix soft ; bake in deep 
tin pans. 

Tomato Omelet. 
Beat up 6 eggs ; mix 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, with a little 
jutter, and add some salt and pepper; peal and chop very fine 
[ tomatoes ; stir all together and fry quickly. 

Light Biscuit. 

Take one pound of flour, a pint of butter-milk, half a tea- 

poonful of saleratus. Rub a small piece of butter or lard into 

he flour; make it about the consistency of bread before baking. 

Boil Your Molasses. 

When your molasses is used in cooking, it is a very great im- 

rovement to boil and skim it before you use it. It takes out 

le unpleasant raw taste and makes it more like sugar. 

How to Preserve Apples. 
Weigh equal quantities of good brown sugar and of apples ; 
pel, core, and mince them small. Boil the sugar, allowing to 
rery three pounds a pint of water; skim it well and boil it 
petty thick; then add the apples, the grated peel of one or two 
imons, and two or three pieces of white ginger if you have it ; 
)il till the apples fall and look clear and yellow. This will 
;ep for years. 

Togus Bread. 
|Take four cups Indian meal, one cup of flour, two cups of 
Veet milk, one cud of sour milk, muvTmlf cup f molasses, two 



82 Recipes and Disclosures 

teaspoonfuls saleratus and a little salt. Steam three hours 
and bake fifteen minutes. 

Drying Khubarb. 
Rhubarb dries very well, and when well prepared will keep 
good for an indefinite time. The stalks should be broken off 
while they are crisp and tender, and cut into pieces about two 
inches long. These pieces should then be strung on a thin twine 
and hung up to dry. Rhubarb shrinks very much in drying, 
more so than any other fruit, and when dry it resembles pieces 
of soft wood. When wanted for use, it should be soaked in 
water over night and the next day simmered over a slow fire. 
None of its properties appear to be lost in drying, and it is 
equally as good in winter as any dried fruit. 

Varieties. 
Two eggs beaten light, one teaspoonful salt ; the eggs thick- 
ened with flour to roll as thin as a wafer ; cut in strips one inch 
wide and four inches long, wind it round your finger, and fry as 
you do doughnuts. 

Election Cake. 

Eight lbs. flour, 4 1-2 lbs. sugar, 2 lbs. butter, 2 lbs. lard, 2 
qts. milk, I pt. yeast, 6 eggs, 1 oz. mace, 2 ozs. nutmegs, 4 lbs. . 
raisins, 1 lb. citron, 1 gill brandy, 1 gill wine. The shortening 
well mixed with the sugar. Then take part and rub with the 
flour; then add the milk quite warm, then the eggs and yeast 
beat half an hour. When light stir in the wine and brandy, add 
spices with the remainder of the shortening, which must be beat 
half an hour. When light add the fruit. 

Substitute for Cream. 
Beat up the whole of a fresh egg and pour boiling tea over it; 
it is difficult to distinguish it from rich cream. 

Ham Toast. 

Mince very finely the lean of a slice or two of boiled ham ; 

beat the yolks of two eggs and mix them with the ham, adding 

as much cream or stock as will make it soft ; keep it long enough 

on the fire to warm it through— it may be allowed almost to boil, 



For Housekeepers. 83 

but should be stirred all the time. Have ready some buttered 
toast, cut in round pieces, and lay the ham neatly on each piece. 

Cora Oysters. 
Take 6 ears of boiled corn, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour. 
Cut the corn off the cob, season it with pepper and salt, mix it 
with the yolks of the eggs beaten thoroughly, and add the flour. 
Whisk the whites to a stiff froth, and stir them in; put a table- 
spoonful at a time in a pan of hot lard or butter and fry until 
they are a light brown color on both sides. 

Cottage Pudding. 
Take 3 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, with 1 cup of white 
sugar, 2 eggs beaten light, 1 pt. flour, 2 teaspooufuls cream tar- 
tar sifted with the flour, and 1 teacup of milk with 2 teaspoonfuls 
of soda dissolved in it. This pudding may be either baked or 
boiled. Serve with wine sauce. 

Balloons. 
One pint of milk, 3 eggs, 1 pint of flour. Beat the eggs light, 
and mix with the milk, and stir into the flour gradually. Beat 
it well with one saltspoonful of salt; then butter small cups, fill 
them half full of the mixture and bake in a quick oven. When 
done turn them out of the cups, place them on a dish and send 
to the table hot. Eat with wine sauce or nun's butter. 

To Make a Rich Plum Cake. 
Take 1 lb. fresh butter, 1 lb. sugar, 1 1-2 lbs. flour, 2 lbs. cur- 
rants, a glass of brandy, 1 lb. sweetmeats, 2 ozs. sweet almonds, 
LO eggs, 1-4 oz. allspice, 1-4 oz. cinnamon. Melt the butter to a 
jream and put in the sugar ; stir it till quite light, adding the all- 
spice and pounded cinnamon ; in a quarter of an hour take the 
folks of the eggs, and work them in, two or three at a time ; and 
;he whites of the same must by this time be beaten in a strong 
mow quite ready to work in, as the paste must not stand to 
mill the butter, or it will be heavy ; work in the whites gradu- 
ally; then add the orange-peel, lemon, and citron, cut in fine 
strips, and the currants, which must be mixed in well with the 
sweet almonds. Then add the sifted flour and glass of brandy. 



84 Recipes and Disclosures. 

Bake this cake in a tin hoop in a hot oven for three hours, and 
put sheets of paper under it to keep it from burning. 

"Wedding Cake. 
Three lbs. flour, 3 lbs. butter, 3 lbs. sugar, 2 doz. eggs, 3 lbs. 
raisins, 6 lbs. currants, 1 lb. citron," 1 oz. mace, 1 oz. cinnamon, 
1 oz. nutmegs, 1-2 an oz. cloves, 1-2 pt. brandy. Beat the butter 
with your hand to cream, then beat the sugar into the butter, 
add the froth of the yolks of the eggs after being well beaten, 
then the froth of the whites ; mix fruit, spice, and flour together ; 
then add them in with beating. Five or six hour's baking will 
answer for a large loaf. 

Black Cake that will Keep for a Year. 

One lb. sugar, the same of butter and flour, 10 eggs ; beat them 
well together, and when light add 2 wineglasses of brandy, nut- 
meg, mace, and cloves, 2 lbs. raisins, and the same quantity of I 
currants. It will take some hours to bake. A good deal of 
spice is necessary. 

Cream Pie. 

Mix 1 egg beaten, 2 tablespoonfuls corn starch, (flour will I 
answer), 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar, a little salt, 1 teaspoonful 
extract lemon, 1 pt. milk. Bake the two crusts separately ; boil 
the custard, and when cold lay it on one crust and cover with 
the other. 



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Table for Foretelling the "Weather. 
THROUGH ALL THE LUNATIONS OF EACH YEAR. 

This Table and the accompanying remarks, are the result of 
many years' actual observation; the whole being constructed 
on a due consideration of the attraction of the Sun and Moon, 
in their several positions respecting the Earth, and will, by 
simple inspection, show the observer what kind of weather will 
most probably follow the entrance of the Moon into any of its 
quarters, and that so near the truth as to be seldom found to fail. 
If the new moou, the first 
quarter, and the full 
moon or the last quar- 
ter happens : 
Between midnight and > 
2 in the morning, j 
—2 and 4 »* 
—4 and 6 " 
—6 and 8 " 



—8 and 10 " 
—10 and 12 " 
At 12 M. and 2 P. Iff. 
Between 2 and 4 P. M. 

— 4 and 6 P. M. 

— 6 and 8 u 

— 8 and 10 " 

— 10 and midnight 



IN SUMMER. 



Cold, frequent showers. 

Rain. 

Wind and rain. 

Changeable. j 

Frequent showers. 

Very rainy. 

Changeable. 

Fair. 

Fair, if Wind N. W. j 

Rainy if S. or S. W. \ 

Ditto 

Fair. 



IN WINTER. 

Hard Frost, unless the 
wind be south or west. 

Snow and stormy. 

Rain. 

Stormy. 

Cold rain if wind west. 

Snow, if east. 

Cold, and high wind. 

Snow or rain. 

Fair and mild. 

Fair. 

Fair and frosty if wind 
north or north-east. 

R'n or snow, if S.orS.W. 

Ditto. 

Fair and frosty. 



Observations. — The nearer the time of the Moon's change 
to noon or midnight, the more nearly will the result accord 
with the prediction. 

It is also said that less dependence is to be placed on the Table 
in winter than in summer. 



86 Eecipes and Disclosures. 

How to Tan Pelts so as to Leave the Fur or Hair On. 

Dissolve 1 qt. common salt in 2 gals, warm water,. then add 
1-2 lb. sulphuric acid and stir. Put the skins in warm water and 
let them remain until soft and pliable, then take them from the < 
water, lay them, far side down, on a board and scrape the flesh! 
side until the fat and flesh is removed and the pelt left well soft- 
ened, then put the pelts into the above preparation for twenty- 
four hours, stiring well every hour for six hours, then the skins 
are tanned and must be washed and cleansed in a solution made 
from 1-2 lb. sal soda to 2 gals, warm water, then hang up to dry, 
working and rubbing them so as to make them soft. If the fur i 
should be greasy after drying, take some sand, heat it hot and 
rub into the fur and they will be well cleansed. 

To Cure In-grown Toe-nails. 
Paring the nails too closely is the prolific cause of most of the | 
trouble with them. If the corners are cut down too much the J 
flesh grows over them, producing soreness. Always cut the 
nails a little notching, leaving the corners projecting above the>j 
flesh, which they are designed naturally to protect. If the nail j 
inflames at the corners don't pair it off, but raise it with a bit of 
cotton, scrape it very thin on the top, protect it from pressure, 
and let it grow out over the flesh, when the inflammation will 
cease, after which it will cause no more trouble. 

Cure for Chapped Hands. 
Chapped hands can be effectually cured in a few days by rub- 
bing them with either of the following articles, immediately * 
after each washing : glicerine, honey, or sperm oil. 

To Start Rusty Nuts. 
A little carbon oil (kerosine,) dropped on, will penetrate the< 
threads, and the nut can be immediately turned. 

To Procure Ice. 

Nearly fill a gallon stone jug with hot spring-water (leaving 

room for about a pint,) and put in two ounces refined nitre ; the 

jug must then be stopped very close, and let down into a deepi 

well. Alter three or four hours it will be completely frozen , but' 



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the jug must be broken to procure the ice. If the jug is moved 
up ami down, so as to be sometimes out of water and some- 
times in, the consequent evaporation will hasten the process. 

To Clean Canary Birds. 
These pretty little things are, like meaner objects, often 
covered with vermin, and may be effectually relieved of them by 
placing a clean white cloth over their cage at night. In the 
morning it will be covered with small red spots, so small as 
hardly to be seen, except by the aid of a glass; these are the 
vermin, a source of great annoyance to the birds. 

How to Drive Nails into Hard-wood Without Bending. 

If nails are dipped in sweet oil, or any other kind of oil, they 
can be driven into any kind of hard wood without either bend- 
ing or breaking. 

To Stop Blood. 

Soot applied to a fresh cut or wound, will stop the blood and 
abate the pain at the same time. 

To Make Castor Oil Palatable. 
Boil castor oil with an equal quantity of milk, sweeten it with 
a little sugar, stir it well, and let it cool. 

Bait for Bat Traps. 
Mix a paste of corn meal with raw eggs, and the rats will all 
get in if there is room. 

To Drive Rats and Mice from Tour Premises. 

Buy 1 lb. chloride of lime and scatter it dry into every rat 
and mouse hole and place that they may visit, in the cellar and 
other parts of the house, in and under the wall, and they will 
soon leave you. Don't put it on or near any article of family 
provisions. 

Important Remedy for Diarrhoea. 

A great deal is said about blackberry wine, brandy, etc., for 
looseness of the bowels, and no doubt some of the spiced and 
other preparations of blackberries are useful as mild astringents. 
But the chief medicinal virtues of the blackberry plant exists 



88 Recipes and Disclosures. 

not in the fruit, but in the root, and fortunately the root is to 
found almost anywhere, and at all seasons, and it is easily pr 
served dry. Dig, say 1-2 lb. of the small roots, with the bark 
only of the larger ones ; wash clean : put in a tin or glazed wan 
dish, 1 qt. of water. Steep and boil until there is a pint of fluid 
left. Strain this oft" into a bottle and it is ready for use. It wil 
keep any length of time by adding a gill or so of alcohol, or o\ 
strong brandy or whiskey to prevent fermentation. A table- 
spoonful three times a day is a dose for a grown person. Even 
the "army diarrhoea,'' which is "chronic from the commence- 
ment," yields to this with proper precautions as to food. We 
speak strongly on this subject, and hope to call the attention of 
physicians, as well as others, to this very important remedy. 

To Take Ink Out of Linen. 
Dip the spotted parts in pure melted tallow ; then wash out 
the tallow, and the ink will come out with it. This is said to be 
unfailing. 

Sharpening Edge Tools. 

The following is translated from a German scientific journal : 
" It has long been known that the simplest method of sharpen- 
ing a razor is to put it in water to which has been added one- 
twentieth of its weight of muriatic or sulphuric acid, then lightly 
wipe it off, and, after a few hours, set it on a hone. The acid 
here supplies the place of the whetstone, by corroding the whold 
surface uniformly, so that nothing further than a good polish is 
necessary. The process never injures good blades, while badly 
hardened ones are frequently improved by it, although the cause 
of such improvement remains unexplained." 

Milk Punch. 

Take two spoonfuls of brandy, a little sugar, and half a 
tumbler of hot water. Fill it up with new milk, and grate in a 
little nutmeg. 

Method for Securing "Woolens, Furs, &c., from Moths. 

Carefully shake and brush woolens, furs, &c, early in the 
spring, so as to be certain that no eggs are in them ; then sew 
them up in cotton or linen wrappers, putting a piece of camphor 






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gum, tied up in a bit of muslin, into each bundle, or into the 
chests and closets where the articles are to lie. No moth will 
approach while the smell of the camphor continues. When the 
gum has evaporated it must be renewed. 

Iron Cement for Mending Stoves, &c. 

* 
Common wood ashes and salt made into a paste, with a little 

water. With this mixture, an aperture through which the fire 

or smoke penetrates may be closed in a moment. Its effect is 

equally certain whether the stove be hot or cold. 

Apple "Water. 
Roast very well two or three apples, put them into a pitcher, 
turn on some boiling water, and add a little sugar. 

A Strengthening Drink. 
Beat the yolk of a fresh egg with a little sugar, add a very 
little brandy, beat the whites to a strong froth, and stir it into 
the yolk, fill it up with milk and grate in a little nutmeg. 

How to Tell Good Eggs. 
If you desire to be certain if your eggs are good and fresh, put 
them in water ; if the butts turn up they are not fresh. This is 
an infallible rule to distinguish a good egg from a bad one, and 
should always be resorted to before boiling eggs for the table. 

To Restore a Faded Carpet. 
Dip the carpet in strong salt and water. Blue factory cotton 
or silk handkerchiefs will not fade, if dipped in salt water while 
thoy are new. 

Cement for Broken Glass or Crockery. 
Take the white of an egg, and very fine quick lime. 

To Prevent the Formation of Crust in Tea Kettles. 
Keep an oyster shell in your tea kettle, and it will prevent the 
formation of a crust on the inside of it, by attracting the stony 
particles to itself. 

Beautiful Varnish for Paintings and Pictures. 
Honey, 1 pint, the whites of two dozen fresh hen's eggs, 1 oz. 



90 Recces and Disclosures. 

of good clean isinglass, 20 grains of hydrate of potassium, 1-2 oz. 
of chloride of sodium, mix together over a gentle heat of 80 or 
90 degrees Fah. ; be careful not to let the mixture remain long 
enough to coagulate the albumen of the eggs, stir the mixture 
thoroughly, then bottle. It is to be applied as follows :— One < 
tafclespoonful of the varnish added to half a tablespoonful of 
good oil of turpentine, then spread on the picture as soon as 
mixed. 

How to get rid of "Water Bugs and Cockroaches. 

Take powdered borax and sprinkle in the cracks and crevices 

affording shelter to these insects, and in three or four days the* 

house will be entirely cleared of them. 

Durable "White Wash. 
Throw some salt into the water you mix your lime with, it 
will prevent it from cracking. 

Kerosene Lamp Wicks. 

At the present price of lamp wicks, people can make a better 

wick than they can buy by taking cotton flannel, of which alllj 

have pieces, and folding it up three thicknesses, just wide enough! 

to go into the tube, and catching the edge with coarse stitches. 

A Sure Cure for a Felon. 

Take a pint of common soft soap and stir in air-slacked limej 

till it is of the consistency of glazier's putty. Make a leather! 

thimble, fill it with this composition, and insert the finger) 

therein, and a cure is certain. 

Varnish for Iron Work. 

Dissolve, in about two pounds of tar oil, half a pound of as- 

phaltum, and a like quantity of pounded rosin, mix hot in anj 

iron kettle, care being taken to prevent any contact with the 

flame. When cold the varnish is ready for use. 

How to Make a Truthful Barometer. 
Take a clean glass bottle and put in it a small quantity of fine- 
ly pulverized alum, then fill up the bottle with alcohol. The 
alum will be perfectly dissolved by the alcohol, and in clear 



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weather the liquid will be as transparent as the purest water.— 
On the approach of rain or cloudy weather the alum will be vis- 
ible in a flaky spiral cloud in the centre of the fluid reaching 
from the bottom to the surface. Thus a cheap, simple and beau- 
tiful barometer is placed within the reach of all who wish to 
possess one. For simplicity of construction this is altogether su- 
perior to the frog barometer in general use in Germany. 

Transparent Cement for Glass. 
Dissolve one part of India-rubber in 64 of chloroform, then 
add gum mastic in powder 16 to 24 parts, and digest for two days 
with frequent shaking. Apply with a camel's hair brush. 

Glue, How to Strengthen, and Kesist the Action of Water. 
Powdered chalk added to common Glue strengthens it. A 
Glue which will resist the action of water is made by boiling 1 
pound of Glue in 2 quarts of skimmed milk. 

Anti- Attraction, and Axle Greese. 
One part fine black lead, ground perfectly smooth, with four 
parts lard. 

Cements for Mending Earthen and Glass "Ware. 

1. Heat the article to be mended, a little above boiling water 
heat, then apply a thin coating of gum shellac, on both surfaces 
of the broken vessel, and when cold it will he as strong as it was 
originally. 

2. Dissolve gum shellac in alcohol, apply the solution, and 
bind the parts firmly together until the cement is perfectly dry. 

Cements to Render Cisterns, Casks, &c., "Water Tight. 

An excellent cement for resisting moisture is made by incor- 
porating thoroughly eight parts of melted glue, of the consis- 
tence used by carpenters, with four parts of linseed oil, boiled 
into varnish with litharge. This cement hardens in about forty- 
eight hours, and renders the joints of wooden cisterns and casks 
air and water tight. A compound of glue with one-fourth its 
weight of Venice turpentine, made as above, serves to cement 
glass, metal and wood, to one another. Fresh-made cheese curd, 



92 Recipes and' Disclosures. 

and old skim-milk cheese, boiled in water to a slimy consistence, 
dissolved in a solution of bicarbonate of potash, are said to form 
a good cement for glass and porcelain. The glutton of wheat, 
well prepared, is also a good cement. White of eggs, with flour 
and water well mixed, and smeared over linen cloth, forais a i 
ready lute for steam joints in small apparatus. 

Cement for Bottle Corks. 
The bituminous or black cement for bottle corks consists of i! 
pitch hardened by the addition of rosin and brick-dust. 

A Cheap and Efficient Kat Trap. 
A good trap may be made by filling a smooth kettle to within 
six inches of the top with water and covering with chaff and 
indian meal. 

To Stop Offensive Effluvia. 
If you place fine charcoal over any decaying substance, animal 
or vegetable, all offensive effluvia will be arrested. 

To Make Hens Lay. 
If a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper is given to a dozen hens *: 
with their food every other day, winter and summer, the quan- 
tity of eggs they will produce will be nearly double. So say 
those who have tried it. 

How to Ascertain the Length of Days and Nights. 
To ascertain the length of a day or- night anytime of the year, J 
double the time of the sun's rising, which gives the length of the a 
night, and double the time of setting, which gives the length of! 
the day. This is a very simple and correct way of " doing the 
thing," which but very few people are aware of. 

Why the Hair Turns Grey. 
The cause of hair turning grey is the want of iron and sul- 
phur in the system. 

How to Set Smoothing Planes. 
It is frequently found difficult to adjust the ' cap ' and 'iron' of 
the smoothing plane, so that both shall retain the desired posi- 
tion. When the plane iron is struck to start it forward, the 



Miscellaneous Department. 93 

'cap' does uot move forward with it, but a slight blow upon the 
forward end of the plane will start both forward together, thus 
bringing down both irons in the proper manner upon the work. 

To Remove Stains. 
To remove acid stains from linen or cotton goods moisten the 
cloth with water and hold a lighted match under the stain. The 
sulphurous gas from the match will remove the stain. 

The Best Way to be Rid of Ants. 
A few red cedar shavings placed on a pantry shelf will pre- 
vent the depredations of ants, as they always avoid red cedar. 

How to Banish and prevent Musquitoes from Biting. 

Dilute a little of the oil of thyme with sweet oil, and dip pieces 
of paper in it. Hang it in your room, or rub a little on the 
hands and face when going to bed. 

To Make Corn Yield More. 
Corn soaked in Tar-Water and then rolled in plaster will yield 
more, be of better color, and ripen sooner, and will not be dis- 
turbed by birds or worms. 

How to Preserve Plants from Frost. 
Before the plant has been exposed to the sun or thawed, after 
a night's frost, sprinkle it well with spring water in which sal- 
ammoniac or common salt has been infused. 

Ink Stains— How Removed. 
Housewives and all others who arc horrified at the sight of 
ink stains will like to get hold of a recipe for removing them : — 
The moment the ink is spilled, take a little milk and saturate the 
stain, soak it up with a rag, and apply a little more milk, rub- 
bing it in well and in a few minutes the ink will be completely 

removed. 

To Make Washing Easy. 

Take one-half pound hard soap, cut fine and dissolved, one- 
half pound soda ; dissolve each by itself, and when so done put 
them together and boil, adding one teacupful of strained lime- 
water. Put this in when boiling the clothes ; boil them twenty 



94 Mecipes and Disclosures. 

minutes. This will serve several boilers-full. The clothes must 
be previously soaked, and soap rubbed on the stains. You can 
wash the finest material with this, and colored clothes boiled in 
this will not fade. 

How to Take Incrustation off the Teeth. 
Never use charcoal for it wears off the enamel ; as the incrus- 
tation is an alkali use a weak acid — vinegar and water, or lemon 
juice and water, and use a stiff tooth-brush. 

To Preserve Eggs. 
Apply with a brush a solution of gum arabic to the shells, or 
immerse the eggs therein ; let them dry, and afterwards pack 
them in dry charcoal dust. This prevents their being affected 
by any alteration of temperature. 

Medical Use of Ice. 
Ice applied to any part of the body will produce insensibility 
to pain while it is applied. This fact is being made use of to 
perform surgical and dental operations. 

To Renovate Manuscripts. 
Take a hair pencil and wash the part which has been effaced 
with a solution of prussiate of potash in water, and the writing- 
will again appear if the paper has not been destroyed. 

To Raise the Surface of Velvet. 

Warm a flat-iron moderately, cover it with a wet-cloth, and 
hold it under the velvet; the vapor arising from the heated 
cloth will raise the pile of the velvet with the assistance of a 
rush-whisk. 

To Destroy Warts. 

Dissolve as much common washing soda as the water will take 
up. Wash the warts with this for a minute or two and let them 
dry without wiping. Keep the water in a bottle and repeat the 
washing often and it will take aAvay the largest warts. 

A Cat Hint. 
When a cat is seen to catch a chicken, tie it round her neck, 
and make her wear it for two or three days. Fasten it securely, 



Miscellaneous Department. 95 

for she will make incredible efforts to get rid of it. Be firm for 
that time, and the cat is cured— she will never again desire to 
touch a chicken or bird. Try it. 

To Draw a Busted Wail or Spike. 
First drive it in a little which breaks the hold, and then it may 
be drawn out much easier. 

Varnish for "Wood "Work. 
Fowdered gum sandarach eight parts, gum mastic two parts, 
seed-lac eight parts, and digest in a warm place for some days 
with alcohol twenty-four parts, and finally, dilute with sufficient 
alcohol to the required consistence. 

To Make Glass Paper. 
Take a quantity of broken glass (that with a greenish hue is the 
best), and pound it in an ironmorter. Then take several sheets 
of paper, and cover them evenly with a thin coat of glue, and 
holding them to the fire, or placing them upon a hot piece of 
wood or plate of iron, sift the pounded glass over them. Let 
the several sheets remain till the glue is set, and shake off the 
superfluous powder, which will do again. Then hang up the 
papers to dry and harden. Paper made in this manner is much 
superior to that generally purchased at the shops, which chiefly 
consists of fine sand. To obtain different degrees of fineness, 
sieves of different degrees of fineness must be used. Use thick 
paper. 

To Make Sand Paper. 

Having prepared the paper as already described for glass 
paper, take any quantity of powdered pumice-stone, and sift it 
over the paper through a sieve of moderate fineness. When 
the surface has hardened, repeat the process till a tolerably 
thick coat has been formed upon the paper, which, when dry, 
will be fit for use. 

Cutting Glass. 

To cut bottles, shades, or other glass vessels neatly, heat a rod 
of iron to redness, and having filled your vessel the exact 
height you wish it to be cut, with oil of any kind, you proceed 
very gradually to dip the red hot iron into the oil, which, heating 



96 Recipes and Disclosures. 

all along the surface, causes the glass suddenly to chip and crack 
round, when you can lift off the upper portion, close to the sur- 
face of the oil. 

An Easy Method of Computing Interest at Six per Cent. 

Multiply any given number of dollars by the number of days 
of interest desired, separate the right hand figure, and divide by 
six; the result is the true interest in cents of such sura for such 
number of days at six per cent. 

To Prevent Bust, 
A composition may be made for this purpose, consisting of fat, 
oil, and varnish, mixed with iour-fifths of highly rectified spirits 
of turpentine. If the metal be covered with this varnish, put 
on with a sponge, it will never become rusty. It is very useful 
for copper also, and will likewise preserve philosophical instru- 
ments, and prevent their being tarnished from contact with 
water. 

Simple Mode of Purifying "Water. 

A tablespoonful of pulverized alum sprinkled into a hogshead 
of water (the water being stirred at the same time) will, after a 
few hours, by precipitating to the bottom the impure particles, 
so purify it that it will be found to possess nearly all the fresh- 
ness and clearness of the finest spring-water. A pailful, con- 
taining four gallons, may be purified by a single teaspoonful of 
the alum. 

To Clean and Restore the Elasticity of Cain Chair Bottoms, 
Couches, &c. 

Turn up the chair bottom, &c, and with hot water and a 
sponge wash the cane work well, so that it may be well soaked ; 
should it be dirty you must add soap ; let it dry in the air, and 
you will find it as tight and firm as when new, provided the cane 
is not broken. 

Gum Mucilage for Sticking Envelopes, &c. 

Mix in equal quantities, gum-arabic and water, in a phial; 
place it near a stove, shaking it occasionally, until it dissolves. 
Add a little alcohol or oil of cloves to prevent its souring. 



INDEX 



Merchants' and Manufacturers 
Department. 



Page 
7 
7 
8 
11 
12 
5 



Apples, to Preserve 

Blacking, Paste 

Blacking, Water Proof 

Butter, to Restore rancid 

Butter, to Cure 

Coffees, 

Candles, Adamantine, from 

Tallow 12 

Flour, Tests for Good 7 

Flour, to Restore Musty 12 
Grindstones from Common 

Sand, 11 

Glue or Mucilage, Liquid 11 
Honey, Artificial 6 

Honey, Prize, Without Bees' 

Honey 7 

Honey, Extract for Flavoring 7 
Ink, Red 11 

Ink or Writing Fluid, Black 

Copying 11 

Ink, American Commercial 

Writing 12 

Jellies, 8 

Liquid, and Button Blueing 

Liquid, 7 

Lemon Syrup, Artificial 10 
Lemon Peel, Candied 10 

Mustard, Common 8 

Mustard, French Patent 10 
Meat, to Restore Injured 11 
Meat, to Preserve 12 

Onions, Pickled 10 

Powders, Custard 6 



Page 

Powder, Baking G 

Sugar, to Improve Brown 8 

Sauce, Napoleon's Camp 9 

Soap, Shaving 9 

Soap Without Lye or Grease, 9 

Soap, Hard 9 

Soap, Soft Without Lye 9 
Soap, Windsor 10 

Teas, 9 
Vinegar, Directions to Make 

from Sugar 6 

Vinegar, Good 7 

Druggists' and Perfumers' 
Departments 

Ague, Positive Cure Without 

Quinine 14 
Arrowroot, Substitute for 20 
Barrell's Indian Liniment, 13 
Blotches, how to Remove 14 
British Oil, 15 
Balm of Beauty, 16 
Bears' Oil, 21 
Bed Bug Poison, 22 
Cod-Liver Oil, 13 
Cholagogue, India 13 
Calomel, Vegetable Substi- 
tute for 15 
Camphor Ice, 16 
Cough Syrup, 16, 22 
Castor Oil, Common 17 
Cold Cream, Oriental 19 
Cologne Water, 19 
Composition Powders, 20 
Cologne, 21 



98 



Recipes and Disclosures. 



Page 
Dalby's Carminative, 14 

Drops, Imperial, for Gravel 

and Kidney Complaints, 16 
Drops, Sweating 17 

Druggists' Colors, 17 

Drops, Magnetic Toothache 18 
Dr. William's Celebrated 

Three-minute Salve, 21 
Dysentery, Cure for 23 

Dr. Duval's Medicated Lem- 
onade, 23 
Drops, Toothache 23 
Eye Water, 20 
Essences, 20 
Freckles, how to Eemove 14 
Frangipanni, 21 
Gonorrhoea,Positive Cure for 14 
Golden Tincture, 15 
Good Samaritan, 17 
Holloway's Ointment and 

Pills, 13 

Hair Restorative, 19 

Hair Dye, 20 

Hair Oil, New York Bar- 
bers' Star 20 
Hair, to make Soft and Glossy 22 
Jocky Club, 21 
Kiss-me-quick, 20 
Liniment, Nerve and Bone 17 
Ladies' Own, 21 
Mineral Water, 18 
Mead, Sarsaparilla 22 
Mead, Sassafras 23 
Opodeldoc, Liquid 15 
Ointment, Celebrated Pile 16 
Oil of Roses, 18 
Oil to Make the Hair Grow, 19 
Ox Marrow, 19 
Oil, Macassar 19 
Pimples, how to Remove 14 
Paregoric, 17 
Pain-killer, Magnetic 18 
Pills, Ague 18 
Pulmonic Wafers, 22 
Snuff, Cephalic 14 
Salve, Green Mountain 14 
Salve, Black 15 
Syrup for Consumptives, 16 



Smelling Salts, 17 

Shaving Cream, 18 

Seidlitz Powders, Genuine 18 
Seidlitz Water, Bottled 19 

Sir James Clarke's Diarrhoea 

and Cholera Mixture, 19 
Shampoo Mixture, Barbers' 20 
Salve, Pure Vegetable 23 

Tan, how to Remove 14 

Tooth Powder, Excellent 18 
Tunbridge Wells Water, 19 
Tinctures, 20 

Tooth Powders, how to make 

Oriental 21 

Upper Ten, 21 

Vermifuge for Worms, 15 

Vegetable Powders, 20 

Wine, Febrifuge 13 

Welford's Drops of Life for 

Flux, 15 

Whiskers and Moustaches, 
how to make them Grow 
Luxuriantly and be Rich, 
Soft and Glossy, 22 

Select Department. 

Bronze, the Finest 28 

Brass, 23 

Boot Edge Color, 32 

Broadcloth, Black Reviver 

for 33 

Brass, how to Plate 37 

Colors for Confectioners, 24 
Candy, Molasses 25 

Corns, to Remove in Five 

Minutes, 25 

Cement, Water and Fire 

Proof for Rooting, 25 

Cisterns, to Purify 26 

Colors, Seven, for Staining 

Marble, 28 

Composition, Jewelers' Gold 2S 
Cement, Jewelers' Turkish 29 
Cement, Powerful, for Brok- 
en Marble, 31 
Clothing Renovator, 33 
Clothiers, Important to 34 






Index. 



99 



Page 
Cement for Leather and 

Cloth, 35 

Cement for mending Crock- 
ery, which is Transpar- 
ent, 35 
Counterfeit Detector, Patent 

Gold and Silver 36 

Copper, how to Plate 37 

Dentists' Composition for till- 
ing Teeth, 24 
Flv Paper, German 34 
Fire-Bails, Red Hot, Skip- 
ping on Water, 34 
Fire Proofing for Clothing, 34 
Furniture Polish, 35 
Fire Under Water, 40 
Gold Size, Japanners' 26 
Gold Plating, Electro 26 
Gold, to Recover from Gilt 

Metal, 29 

Gold, to Separate from Lace, 29 
Gilt Frames, Reviver for 30 
Gun Cotton, 30 

German Silver, how to Plate 37 
Gravel Houses, how to Build 37 
How to Photograph on Glass, 30 
Harness Edge Color, 32 

How to Write on Glass in 

the Sun, 38 

Ink for Painting on Glass, 31 
Ink, Perpetual, for Tomb- 
stones, &C, 31 
Japan, Transparent 25 
Jewelry, Reviver for Old 29 
Japan, Liquid, for Leather, 32 
Leather, to Dye, Blue, Red, 

or Purple, 32 

Lime, to Burn without a 

Kiln, 40 

Musquitoes Expelled with- 
out Smoke, 26 
Marble, to Clean Old 29 
Magic Copying Paper, 36 
Oil Blacking, Waterproof 32 
Paint, Fire and Waterproof 25 
Paints— Different Sorts, 27 
Photographing, Paper for 31 
Printing Ink, Savage's 34 



Page 
Potter's Patent Invisible Wa- 
terproof for Cloth, 33 
Paint, Green, Cheap and 

Beautiful, 36 

Poll Evil or Fistula, Positive 

Cure for 38 

Sugar from the Chinese 

Cane, 26 

Silver Plating, Electro 27 

Silver, Imitations of 27 

Stains for Wood— Six Col- 
ors, 28 
Steel, to Gild Polished 29 
Silver, to Separate from 

Lace, 29 

Shoe Edge Color, 32 

Storm Glasses, 38 

To Keep Milk Sweet, and 

Sweeten Sour Milk, 26 
To make Devices in Sugar, 26 
Tanning, Cheap, Without 
Bark or Mineral Astrin- 
gents, 31 
To Raise a Nap on Cloth, 32 
Tobacco, Compound, from 

Herbs, 34 

To Petrify Wood, 38 

To Prevent Flies Injuring 
Picture Frames, Glass- 
es, &c., 38 
To melt Steel as Easily as 

Lead, 39 

The New and Beautiful Art 

of Transferring on Glass, 39 
Teeth, to Extract without 

Pain, 40 

Varnish, Brilliant French, 

for Leather, 32 

Varnish, Gold, for Leather, 

Iron, Wood, or Stone, 33 
Varnish, Five Different Sorts 33 
Varnish, Best Harness 35 

Warts, to Remove in Five 

Minutes, 25 

Wells, to Purify 26 

White Lead, Substitute for 28 
Watchmakers' Oil, Pure 31 
Water Springs, how to Form 39 



100 



Recipes and Disclosures. 



Brewers' Department. 

Page 

Ale, English 48 
Brewers, Notice to 41 
Brandy, 45 
Brandy, French 45 
Brandy, Pale 45 
Brandy, Cherry 45 
Brandy, Blackberry 46 
Brandy, Cognac 46 
Beer, Philadelphia 47 
Beer, Ginger 47 
Beer, Lemon 47 
Beer, Spruce 47 
Beer, Hop 48 
Beer, Molasses 48 
Beer, Cheap 48 
Beer, to Restore Sour 48 
Beer, Table 49 
Beer, to Improve the Flavor 49 
Bitters, Stomach 51 
Bitters, Stoughton 52 
Cider Without Apples, 41 
Cider, Champaign 42 
Champaign, American 43 
Champaign, British 43 
Cider, to keep Cider Sweet, 
and to Sweeten Sour Ci- 
der, 49 
Cordial, Peppermint 52 
Drogheda Usquebaugh, 45 
Drink. Silver-top 53 
Freezing Preparation, 51 
Gin, Holland 46 
Lemonade, 50 
Lemonade, Portable 52 
Liquor, Coloring for 52 
Liquors, To Clear and Fine 53 
Maderia, British 43 
Nectar, Imperial Cream 51 
Punch, 52 
Punch, Milk 52 
Rum, 47 
Rum Shrub, 46 
Sherry, London 45 
Syrup, Soda 50 
Syrups, Lemon and Other 50 
Soda, Cream 50 j 



Page 
Soda Water— Double Strong, 51. 
Soda Water, Bottled 51 

Sangaree, 52 

Wine, Superior Raisin 42 

Wine, Currant and Other 

Fruit 42 

Wine, Raisin, Equal to Sher- < 

ry, 42; 

Wine, Port 43 

Wines, Various 43 

Whiskey, Old Bourbon 43! 

Wine, Morella 44 

Wine, Blackberry 44 

Wine, Strawberry 44 

Whiskey, Irish 44 

Whiskey, Old Rye 44 

Whiskey, Monongahala 44 

Whiskey, Scotch 44 

Wine, English Patent, from 

Rhubarb, 46 . 

Wine, Ginger 48 

Wine, to Restore Flat 49 ; 

Whiskey, to improve the 

Flavor of 50 

Farmers' and Fruit Growers' 
Department. 

Barns, Cheap Paint for bd 

Bees, how to Feed 64 

Butter, Churning 66 

Cows, Rules for the Manage- 
ment of 54 
Cherries, how to Save from 

Birds, 55 

Corn, to Measure a Crib of 56 
Cows' Teats, Remedy for 

Warts on 57 

Cattle, Remedy for Bloat in 57 
Cows, Dry Hay for in Sum- 
mer, 58 
Cucumber, Squash and other 
Vines, how to Prevent 
Bugs from Eating 59 
Cattle, how to Kill Lice ou 59 
Corn House, how to Build 
so as to keep out Rats 
and Mice, 63 



Index. 



101 



Page 
Cows, Garget in 60 

Cattle, Ages of 61 

Currants, Gooseberries, &c, 
Best Time to Set Cut- 
tings of 63 
Cattle, Treatment of 66 
Eggs, Nest 65 
Fruit Trees, Scraping • 68 
Fruit Trees, Grafting 58 
Fruit, to Keep Worms out 

of Dried 63 

Fruits or Flowers, to Pre- 
serve 67 
Grape Vines, Directions for 

Setting and Pruning 56 
Grain, How to Feed 56 

Geese, how to Fatten 65 

Grafts, when to Cut and how 

to Preserve 65 

Grapes, to Prevent the Drop- 
ping off of 67 
Hogs in Apple Orchards, 55 
Hogs, Bleeding 57 
Honey, how to take without 

Destroying the Bees, 64 
Hens, how to Feed so as to 

make them Lay, 65 

Horses — to prevent the Feet 
of Horses Balling with 
Snow, 66 

Horses, Treatment of 66 

Lambs, to Recuscitate Chilled 59 
Lambkil Poison, Remedy for 65 
Milk, how to Condense 66 

Plows, Care of Steel 55 

Poultry, Feeding 60 

Potatoes, to Preserve Until 

Spring, 60 

Rope, to make Pliable, 59 

Sheep, Scab on 55 

Saws, Removing Rust from 55 
Stock, Feeding 57 

Sheep— How to Make a Ewe 

own a Strange Lamb, 58 

Soil, Manure for Sandy 59 

Sows Lying on their Pigs, 60 

Swine-how to Prevent Swine 

from Eating their Young, 61 



Page 

Sheep, Age of 62 

Swine, Age of 62 

Timber, how to Cut Post and 

Rail 61 

Farriers' Department. 

Age, to Tell a Horses 72 

Bots, to Prevent 68 

Baulky Horse, how to make 

him Start Off, 69 

Bots in Horses, Never Fail- 
ing Remedy for 70 
Broken Winded Horses, 71 
Cracked Hoof, Remedy for 68 
Corn, how to make Doubly 

Nutritious to Horses, 69 
Cold, 70 

Colic Cured in Ten Minutes, 71 
Founder, to Cure in Twenty- 
four Hours, 71 
Galled Backs of Horses, Lin- 
iment for 68 
Horses, how to Catch 68 
Horses being Teased by Flies, 

how to Prevent 68 

How to Remove a Horse 

from a Burning Barn, 69 
Horses, how to Tame the 

Wildest 71 

Hoof Bound, 72 

Oats, how to make Doubly 

Nutritious to Horses, 69 
Physic Ball for Horses, 69 

Points of a Good Horse, 70 
Ringbone Cure, 70 

Strains in Horses, Remedy 

for 69 

Solon's Horse Liniment, the 

Best in use, 70 

Spavin Cure, 70 

Staggers in Horses, Cure for 71 
Scratches, Remedy for 72 

Sprains and Swellings, Soap 
Liniment for 72 

Hunters' and Trappers' Dep't. 
Art of Catching Fish, Secret 74 



102 



Page 
Art of Catching Fish, Chinese 74 
Bait for Trout Fishing, Best 75 
Birds, to Catch 75 

Eels, to Catch Abundance of 74 
Foxes, to Catch 78 

Fish, to Preserve Living 74 
Fish, to Catch 74 

Fish, to Catch Abundance of 74 
Hunters' Secret 73 

Muskrat, to Catch 73 

Mink, to Catch 74 

Pickerel Fishing 75 

Housekeepers' and Cooking 
Department. 

Apples, how to Preserve 81 

Biscuit, Light 81 

Bail Your Molasses, 81 

Bread, Togus 81 

Balloons, 83 

Black Cake that will Keep a 

Year, 84 

Cake, Webster 79 

Cake, Clay 79 

Cake, Indian 79 

Coffee, Beet Root 79 

Cake, Breakfast 80 

Cake, Fruit 80 

Cake, Election 82 

Cream, Substitute for 82 

Cake, to Make Rich Plum 83 

Cake, Wedding 84 

Dumplings, Rhubarb 81 

Gingerbread, Soft 81 

Housekeepers, Hints to 76 

Omelet, Tomato 81 

Oysters, Corn 83 

Puddings, Queen of 78 

Pie, Mince Without Meat, 78 
Preserves, Directions for 

Keeping 80 

Pie, Imitation Apple 80 
Potatoes, How to Boil and 

have them Mealy, 80 

Pudding, Cottage 83 

Pie, Cream 84 

Rolls, Fine Flour Bread 78 



Recipes and Disclosures. 



Rhubarb, Drying 
Toast, Ham 
Varieties, 

Miscellaneous Department. 



Page 

82 
82 
82 



Apple Water, 

A Strengthening Drink, 89 

Anti-Attraction and Axle 

Grease, 91 

Ants, the Best Way to get 

Rid of 93 

A Cat Hint, 94 

An Easy Method of Comput- 
ing Interest at Six per 
cent., 96 

Bait for Rat Traps, 87 

Barometer, how to Make a 

Truthful 90 

Chapped Hands, 86 

Canary Birds, to Clean 87 

Castor Oil, to make Palatable, 87 1 
Carpet, to Restore a Faded 89 
Cement for Broken Glass or 

Crockery, 89 

Cement, Transparent, for 

Glass, 91 

Cements for Mending Earth- 
en and Glass Ware, 91 
Cements to Render Cisterns, 

Casks, &c, Water-tight, 91 
Cement for Bottle Corks, 92 i 
Corn, to Make it Yield More, 93 S| 
Diarrhoaa, Important Rem- 
edy for 87 1 
Days and Nights, how to As- 
certain the Length of 92 
Edge Tools, Sharpening 88 
Eggs, how to Tell Good 89 
Effluvia, to Stop Offensive 92 ! 
Eggs, to Preserve 94 1 
Felon, a Sure Cure for a 90 
Glue, how to Strengthen, 
and Resist the Action of 
Water, 91 1 
Glass Paper, to Make 95 
Gum Mucilage for Sticking 
Envelopes, &c, 96 



Index. 



103 



Page 
Glass, Cutting 95 

How to Drive Nails into Hard 

Wood Without Bending, 87 
How to get Rid of Water 

Bugs and Cockroaches, 90 
Hens, to Make them Lay, 92 
Hair, Why it Turns Grey, 92 
How to Take Incrustation off 

the Teeth, 94 

Ink, to Take out of Linen, 88 
jferon Cement for Mending 

Stoves, &c, 89 

Ink Stains— How Removed, 93 
Kerosene Lamp Wicks, 90 

Method of Securing Woolens, 

Furs, &c., from Moths, 88 
Musquitoes, how to Banish 

and Pre ventfrom Biting, 93 
Manuscript, to Renovate 94 
Medical Use of Ice, 94 

Pelts, how to Tan so as to 

Leave the Fur or Hair on 86 
Punch, Milk 88 

flants, how to Preserve from 

Frost, 93 

Rats and Mice, to Drive from 

Your Premises, 87 

Rust, to Prevent 96 



Page 
Rat Trap, a Cheap and Effi- 
cient 92 
Smoothing Planes, how to Set 92 
Stains, to Remove 93 
Sand Paper, to Make 95 
Simple Mode of Purifying 

Water, 90 

Table for Foretelling the 

Weather, 85 

Toe-Nails, to Cure In-grown 80 
To Start Rusty Nuts, 86 

To Procure Ice, SQ 

To Stop Blood, 87 

To Prevent the Formation of 

Crust in Tea Kettles, 89 
To Draw a Rusted Nail or 

Spike, 95 

To Clean and Restore the 
Elasticity of Cain Chair 
Bottoms, Couches, &c., 96 
Varnish, Beautiful for Paint- 
ings and Pictures, 89 
Varnish for Iron Work, 90 
Velvet, to Raise the Surface 94 
Varnish for Wood Work, 95 
White Wash, Durable 90 
Washing, to Make Easy, 93 
Warts, to Destroy 94 



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